Light
will someday split you open
even if your life is now a cage,
For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,
is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain
that you hold the title to.
Love will surely bust you wide open
into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy
A life-giving radiance will come,
O look again within yourself,
For I know you were once the elegant host
To all the marvels in creation.
From a sacred crevice in your body,
a bow rises each night
and shoots your soul into God.
Behold the Beautiful One
from the vantage point of Love.
He is conducting the affairs
of the whole universe
in a tree house – on a limb
in your heart.
ThisPath to God
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I was starving until one night
My love tricked God Himself
To fall into my bowl.
Now Hafiz is infinitely rich,
But all I ever want to do
Is keep emptying out
My emerald-filled Pockets
UponThis tear-stainedWorld.
--Hafiz
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ReplyDeleteThe Exstatic Poetry Of Hafiz
Hafiz, (c.1320 to 1389) a Sufi poet, expressed in poetry love for the divine, and the intoxicating oneness of union with it. Hafiz, along with many Sufi masters, uses wine as the symbol for love. The intoxication that results from both is why it is such a fitting comparison.Hafiz spoke out about the hypocrisy and deceit that exists in society, and was more outspoken in pointing this out than many poets similar to him.
Delete"When love has carried us above all things.....we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light,enfolding us and penetrating us.
What is this Light, if it be not a contemplation of the Infinite,and an intuition of Eternity? We behold that wch we are,and we are that wch we behold; because our being, without losing anything of our own personality,is united with the Divine Truth."
--Ruysbroeck
Love is the vivifying and unifying force (principle of attraction) of the universe...and only It can unlock the door!