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Summary: I heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz
Review: I recently read other reviews and found them over worded. I have a much simpler approach. If you would like to dance with God spend a few moments of your precious life with Hafiz's renderings. It's time well spent!
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Summary: I Heard me Smiling
Review: I'm really enjoying the poetry in this book - its beautifully written and leaves you with interesting thoughts to contemplate. Glad I bought it!
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Summary: Beautiful poetry
Review: I'm really enjoying the poetry in this book - its beautifully written and leaves you with interesting thoughts to contemplate. Glad I bought it!
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Summary: A Book For Lovers
Review: If you love life, love love, or love God this book is for you! It has become a constant companion for me because Hafiz has expressed perfectly every emotion that I experience during the day. My own mantra is Manic Screaming: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! Two of many others that have brought me moments of complete clarity and comfort are: You Don't Have to Act Crazy Anymore (after the death of my crack addict friend), and We Should Talk About This Problem (when I felt distant from a loved one). That one begins with these words: There is a Beautiful Creature Living in a hole you have dug. Later in the poem there is this line: I have fallen in love with Someone Who hides inside you. Whether the capitalizations matter to you or not, you'll appreciate this poem if you are one of the lovers mentioned above! This book is a treasure.
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Summary: A happy bit of poetry,
Review: Life is fun, or should be, and meant to be lived in love is the message of these poems, those who don't think so are being deceived. Hafiz was a main influence on the third and final stage of Goethe's writing and ideas. They also demonstrate the diversity of thought in the Persian influenced area of the world. Of course something is lost in translation with most all poetry, one sees only a single frame of a changing kaleidoscope. There is a passion glimmered here that seems most intense.
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Summary: A happy bit of poetry
Review: Life is fun, or should be, is the message of these poems. Hafiz was also a main influence on the third and final stage of Goethe's writing and ideas. They also show an important aspect to the diversity of thought in the Persian influenced area of the world.
Of course something is lost in translation, one sees only a single frame of a changing kaleidoscope.
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Summary: Perfect for my religion senior thesis
Review: Oh, I loved this book! Rarely do I play guessing games with books (purchasing a book that I have a faint clue will be of some help)...but I had an inkling this book would be perfect as subject matter #4 for my senior thesis on how famous Middle Eastern mystics of Turkey and Persia viewed God and faith. I took a chance, bought the book, and could not have been more satisfied. *****!!
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Summary: Extremely Simple, Extremely Profound
Review: On its surface this collection of simple wisdom would appear almost New-Agey in terms of its contents. The book is essentially just a series of messages sent from a "seeker" to a loved one. Yet there is much that lies beneath the surface and that is very, very genuine at play here. It is in fact the perfect antidote to the sort of fluff that passes for spiritual writing these days. These are messages addressed to the "real" selves that all of us harbour, to the godhead that dwells inside us. Divine light shines through the pages of this book. Forget the self help books for once and allow your mind and spirit to drink in the celestial essence that Hafiz, et al impart. For a real journey of the spirit, take this book along with you to someplace peaceful and quiet and let yourself travel. BEK
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Summary: I heard God Laughing
Review: Pure Joy, wonderus and uplifting. Awe inspiring. I have read it over and over and always it is new. I thank Daniel Ladinshy for translating the work of Hafiz for us, and opening the door to the beauty of this Sufie mystic. Works like this infuences and neutralizes all the negative stuff that is going on in this world and brings hope. Maybe one day we will all share in The Beauty and Enlightenment that Hafiz writes about????
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Summary: Hafiz trues the course of our journey towards Love
Review: So much beauty! In this joyous book Hafiz appears to us as a beacon of pure light in contemporary garb. These deeply tender, witty, clear-eyed and fullest-hearted renditions have brightened my life. Hafiz can't help but true the course on our journey towards living Love. Because for him, in fact, nothing else exists. For Hafiz, only Love is Real. Hafiz has influenced and nourished a great many through the years. In the West, inspired notables include Goethe, Nietzsche, Byron, Hugo and Emerson. Emerson wrote of Hafiz in his journals, "He fears nothing. He sees too far; he sees throughout; such is the only man I wish to see and be." And Goethe exclaimed, "This is madness, I know well, Hafiz has no peer!" _I Heard God Laughing_ is a perfect gem of a book. Go ahead. Take Hafiz home with you. Why--he may even lead the way, dancing and singing all the while.
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