Jul 24, 2020
And the sun and moon Sometimes argue over Who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun Than anyone on this planet You are absolutely correct.
- Daniel Ladinsky, I hold the lion’s paw
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And the sun and moon Sometimes argue over Who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun Than anyone on this planet You are absolutely correct.
- Daniel Ladinsky, I hold the lion’s paw
I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through the tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing - Now!
Hafez (trans. Daniel Ladinsky)
What happens when your soul Begins to awaken Your eyes And your heat And the cells of your body To the great Journey of Love?
Hafez (trans. Daniel Ladinsky)
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins That may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days Like a broken man Behind a farting camel.
Hafez (trans. Daniel Ladinsky)
I bow to God in gratitude, And I find the moon is also busy Doing the same. I bow to God in great happiness, And I learn from where the suns And the children And my heart All borrow their Light. I bow to the Friend in deep reverence And discover a marvelous secret carried in the air: The whole Universe is just as blessed And divinely crazed as I, And just as lost in this Wonderful Holy Dance.
Hafiz (trans. Daniel Ladinsky)
Hafiz, Look at the Perfect One At the Circle's Center: He Spins and Whirls like a Golden Compass, Beyond all that is Rational, To show this dear world That Everything, Everything in Existence Does point to God.
Hafez (trans. Daniel Ladinsky)
There is something about circles The Beloved likes. Hafiz, Within the Circle of a Perfect One There is an Infinite Community Of Light.
Hafiz (trans. Daniel Ladinksy)
That so many of the poems attributed to Hafez are fake reveals a Western appropriation of Muslim spirituality.