Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky): I Have Learned So Much

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I Have Learned So Much

by Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky)
(1945? - ) Timeline

Original Language
English

Muslim / Sufi

Contemporary

I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself

A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim
A Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of itself
With me

That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel
Or even pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
My mind has ever known.

-- from The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, by Daniel Ladinsky

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Themes

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, by Daniel Ladinsky
	I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky
	Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
	The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky

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