the secret life of love and joy (6 December 2016)

Mark Daffey, Children on Street in Old Town, South of Khoshk River, Shiraz, Iran

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

- Hafiz

Buraq and angels from Yusuf and Zulaykha, a 19th-century Judeo-Persian manuscript

Yusuf and Zulaykha

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

- Hafiz

Imam Mosque, Isfahan

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light.

- Hafiz

Nasir al-Mulk Mosque (Pink Mosque), Shiraz, Iran

We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

- Hafiz

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light... And let it breathe.

- Hafiz

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

- Hafiz

Ceiling in the Chehel Sotun Palace, Isfahan