{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm a spiritual person, she said. 'I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?","author":"Michael Muhammad Knight","tags":["allah","church","hafiz","islam","liberalism","muslim","prophet-muhammad-pbuh","spirituality"],"id":5407,"author_id":"Michael+Muhammad+Knight"},{"text":"You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["dreaming","dreaming-big","dreams","giving-up","hafiz","happiness","inspirational","life","life-lessons","motivational","perseverance","persistence","poetry","purpose","rhonda-byrne","rumi","self-love","tony-robbins","vision","wisdom"],"id":6926,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["hafiz","king-solomon","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":18665,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["aware","awareness","awareness","be","become","beloved","conscious","consciousness","consciousness","dance","enjoy","feet","forget","hafez","hafiz","harmony","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","khayyam","kojouri","let-go","letting-go","life","live","living-in-the-now","love","lover","moment","music","present","rumi","saadi","sing","song","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","surrender","voice","yourself"],"id":35860,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz).","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["hafiz","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":55968,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["hafiz","sufis","sufism"],"id":81264,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize \u0026 expect victory.‬.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["believe-in-yourself","confidence","destiny","focus","greatness","greatness-in-you","hafiz","imagination","imagine","inspirational","mind","mind-power","mindfulness","motivational","mystery","overcome","perseverance","persistence","poetry","rumi","self-love","the-secret","vision","visionary","wisdom"],"id":94285,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"You broughtme your darkness\u0026 I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["crying","depression","friendship","hafiz","hardship","pain","poetry","rumi","unconditional-love"],"id":124126,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"I keepholding upthe mirror of the sun,so you can see the stunningreflections of everythingyou’re becom-ing.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["hafiz","light","mirroring","poetry","rumi","self-esteem","self-love","sun","transformation"],"id":134757,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["brightness","confidence","demeaning","hafiz","hope","inferiority-complex","inspirational","light","love","motivational","poetry","put-downs","rumi","self-love","shine","the-sun","wisdom"],"id":211495,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}