We should make all spiritual talk
simple today:
God is trying to sell you something
but you don’t want to buy.
That is what your suffering is:
your fantastic haggling
your manic screaming
over the price.
Hafiz-e-Shirazi (1315 – 1390)
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Irani painting of Hafiz by Mahmoud Farshchian


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