Hafiz Faces of Love and Persian Poets Discussions - Peace for the Soul2024-03-28T11:33:38Zhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/groups/group/forum?groupUrl=hafiz-faces-of-love-and-persian-poets&feed=yes&xn_auth=noi sometimes forgettag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-05-26:5143044:Topic:4563292023-05-26T15:40:30.461Zdesmond dillonhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/desmonddillon
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<p style="text-align: center;">i sometimes forget that i was created for joy </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">my mind is too busy </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">my heart is too heavy </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">for me to remember </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">that i have been called to dance </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the sacred dance of life. …</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">i sometimes forget that i was created for joy </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">my mind is too busy </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">my heart is too heavy </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">for me to remember </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">that i have been called to dance </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the sacred dance of life. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">i was created to smile, to love </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">to be lifted up and to lift up others. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">O Sacred One </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">untangle my feet from all that ensnares.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">free my soul that we may dance </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and that our dancing might be </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">contagious.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Hafiz</p> master poettag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-04-18:5143044:Topic:4535412023-04-18T14:33:20.892Zdesmond dillonhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/desmonddillon
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<p style="text-align: center;">Write a thousand luminous secrets</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Upon the wall of Existence </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So that even a blind man will know </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Where we are,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And join us in this Love.…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Write a thousand luminous secrets</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Upon the wall of Existence </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So that even a blind man will know </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Where we are,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And join us in this Love.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">* </p> "Come Dance with Me."tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2022-07-26:5143044:Topic:3889302022-07-26T12:56:45.245ZLuna Arjunahttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/LunaGlasa
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<p style="text-align: center;">Every child has known God.<br></br> Not the God of names.<br></br> Not the God of don'ts.<br></br> Not the God who ever does<br></br> Anything weird.<br></br> But the God who knows only 4 words<br></br> And keeps repeating them, saying:<br></br> "Come Dance with Me."</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Every child has known God.<br/> Not the God of names.<br/> Not the God of don'ts.<br/> Not the God who ever does<br/> Anything weird.<br/> But the God who knows only 4 words<br/> And keeps repeating them, saying:<br/> "Come Dance with Me."</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">- Hafiz</p>
<p></p> You, I, and Godtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2022-06-05:5143044:Topic:3872282022-06-05T00:06:19.759ZEva Librehttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/Eva
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<p>"I want both of us<br></br> to start talking about <br></br> this great love -</p>
<p>As if <br></br> you, I, and the Sun <br></br> were all married<br></br> and living in a tiny room,<br></br> helping each other to cook,<br></br> do the wash,<br></br> weave and sew,<br></br> care for our beautiful<br></br> animals.</p>
<p>We all leave each morning<br></br> To labor on the…</p>
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<p>"I want both of us<br/> to start talking about <br/> this great love -</p>
<p>As if <br/> you, I, and the Sun <br/> were all married<br/> and living in a tiny room,<br/> helping each other to cook,<br/> do the wash,<br/> weave and sew,<br/> care for our beautiful<br/> animals.</p>
<p>We all leave each morning<br/> To labor on the earth's field.<br/> No one does not lift a great pack.</p>
<p>I want both of us to start singing <br/> like two travelling minstrels<br/> about this extraordinary existence, <br/> we share.</p>
<p>As if<br/> You, I, and God <br/> were all married,<br/> and living <br/> in a tiny<br/> room."</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Hafiz Shirazi</span></p>
<p></p> The Conference of the Birdstag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-05-16:5143044:Topic:3708472021-05-16T16:57:41.016ZNada Junghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/Nada
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<p style="text-align: center;">“The home we seek is in eternity;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Of which your paradise is but a drop.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This ocean can be yours;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">why should you stop</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The secrets of the sun are yours,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">but you</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Turn to what truly lives,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">reject what seems --</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Which matters more, the body or the soul?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Farid ud-Din Attar, From 'The Conference of the Birds'</span></p>
<p></p> skinning your knees on godtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-04-06:5143044:Topic:3694802021-04-06T10:21:10.431Zdesmond dillonhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/desmonddillon
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<p style="text-align: center;">little by little,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you will turn into stars.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">even then, my dear</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you will only be </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">a crawling infant</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">still skinning your knees on God.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">little by little…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">little by little,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you will turn into stars.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">even then, my dear</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you will only be </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">still skinning your knees on God.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">little by little</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you will turn into</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the whole sweet amorous universe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in heat,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">on a wild spring night,</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">and become so free</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in a wonderful, secret</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and pure love</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">that flows</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">from a conscious</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">one pointed</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">infinite need for light.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">even then, my dear</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the beloved will have fulfilled</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">just a fraction,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">just a fraction!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">of a promise</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">he wrote upon your heart.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">when your soul begins</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">to ever bloom and laugh</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and spin in eternal ecstasy</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">O little by little,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you will turn into God.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p> Faithful Lovertag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2020-11-22:5143044:Topic:3261312020-11-22T01:52:11.845ZEva Librehttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/Eva
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<p><br></br> The moon came to me last night</p>
<p>With a sweet question.</p>
<p><br></br> She said,</p>
<p><br></br> "The sun has been my faithful lover</p>
<p>For millions of years.</p>
<p><br></br> Whenever I offer my body to him</p>
<p>Brilliant light pours from his heart.</p>
<p><br></br> Thousands then notice my happiness</p>
<p>And delight in pointing</p>
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<p><br/> The moon came to me last night</p>
<p>With a sweet question.</p>
<p><br/> She said,</p>
<p><br/> "The sun has been my faithful lover</p>
<p>For millions of years.</p>
<p><br/> Whenever I offer my body to him</p>
<p>Brilliant light pours from his heart.</p>
<p><br/> Thousands then notice my happiness</p>
<p>And delight in pointing</p>
<p>Toward my beauty.</p>
<p><br/> Hafiz,</p>
<p>Is it true that our destiny</p>
<p>Is to turn into Light</p>
<p>Itself?"</p>
<p><br/> And I replied,</p>
<p><br/> Dear moon,</p>
<p>Now that your love is maturing,</p>
<p>We need to sit together</p>
<p>Close like this more often</p>
<p><br/> So I might instruct you</p>
<p>How to become</p>
<p>Who you</p>
<p>Are!</p>
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