A day of Silence Can be a pilgrimage in itself. A day of Silence Can help you listen To the Soul.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

“Traces of Sufi-doctrine exist in every country; in the theories of ancient  Greece; in the modern philosophies of Europe; in the dream of the ignorant  and of the learned; in the shade of ease and the hardship of the desert.”

 Lt.  Col. H. Wilberforce Clarke, The Awarif-l-Ma'arif

“Vestigios de doctrina Sufi existen en cada país: en las teorías de la antigua Grecia; en las modernas filosofías de Europa; en el sueño del ignorante y del instruido; a la sombra del reposo y en la adversidad del desierto.”

Tte. Cor. H. Wilberforce Clarke, The Awarif-l-Ma'arif

Let tenderness pour from your eyes The way the Sun gazes warmly on the earth.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

Pure Love That flows From a conscious, One-pointed, Infinite need for Light.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

Your body is my shrine.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

Fire has a love for itself— It wants to keep burning.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

The mind and the body are famous For holding the heart ransom.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

Whisper, “I love you! I love you!” To the whole mad world.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

(Meanwhile, we Memento Mori.)

Would you think it odd if Hafiz said, “I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.”

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The Astonishing Light Of your own Being!

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

You put Your lips on my forehead And lit a Holy Lamp Inside my heart.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

I know the way you can get When you have not had a drink of Love: […] Even angels fear that brand of madness That arrays itself against the world And throws sharp stones and spears into The innocent And into one’s self.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

The vital need To keep Remembering God.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)

The torments and the agonies That every mind on the way to Annihilation in the Sun Must endure.

— Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, renderings by Daniel Ladinsky, transl by H. Wilberforce Clarke et. al, (2006)