Sufi Poetry

[BigJohn]

                                           “It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.

Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.
                               Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.”

                                                                                                                                                 Hafez

[BigJohn]

I’ve been looking for a long, long time,
          for this thing called love,
    I’ve ridden comets across the sky,
    and I’ve looked below and above.

  Then one day I looked inside myself,
            and this is what I found,
          a golden sun residing there,
    beaming forth God’s light and sound.

[Miss Hepburn]

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

Hafiz 14th c

[Miss Hepburn]

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi