Quotes of Hafiz of Shiraz

• No one can keep us from carrying God
  Wherever we go.
   
• Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude
  For life.
   
• If you are drinking wine or sitting in the garden with roses
  Instead of seeking the Beloved, then you are wasting time.
   
• Follow my tracks in the sand that lead
  Beyond thought and space.
   
• Why ever talk of miracles
  When you are destined to become
  Infinite love.
   
• We do not have to leave him (god) in the mosque
  Or church alone at night.
   
• My life is like a candle that has burned all night, and has burned away:
  And like the burned moth, I will not rest until I see the light of day.
   
• God and I are rushing
  From every corner of existence, needing to say,
  "We are yours."
   
• Jealousy
  And most all of your sufferings
  Are from believing
  You know better than God.
   
• No one, not even Hafiz, can describe with words the Great Mystery.
  No one knows in which shell the priceless pearl does hide.
   
• Love has
  Befriended Hafiz so completely
  It has turned to ash
  And freed
  Me
   
• This
  Path to God
  Made me such an old sweet beggar.
  I was starving until one night
  My love tricked God Himself
  To fall into my bowl.