Hafiz: Act Great

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth

and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and

for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.

Think of it ... always."

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

Photograph taken at a candlelight vigil outside the firehouse of Squad 18, NYFD, September 11, 2001.


ACT GREAT

What is the key

To untie the knot of your mind’s suffering?

What

Is the esoteric secret

To slay the crazed one whom each of us

Did wed

And who can ruin

Our heart’s and eye’s exquisite tender

Landscape?

Hafiz has found

Two emerald words that

Restored

Me

That I now cling to as I would sacred

Tresses of my Beloved’s

Hair:

Act great.

My dear, always act great.

What is the key

To untie the knot of the mind’s suffering?

Benevolent thought, sound

And movement.

~ Hafiz ~

(The Gift – versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)



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