“One sip of this wine
and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
and tear your clothes — destroying
everything that separates you from the Lover.
Once you taste the fruit of this vine,
you will be kicked out of the city of yourself.
You will forget the world. You will forget yourself.
I tell you:
you will become a madman
who wanders the streets looking for the Lover
once you drink this Wine of Love.”Kamand Kojouri
“The first music I ever heard
was only one hundred and sixty days
after I was conceived.
Da dum
Da dum
Da dum
Have you ever heard the sound
a blessing makes? This is it.The first thing I ever saw
was only one hundred and eighty days
after I was conceived.
It was a bright light
soft like clouds
warm like candles.
Have you ever seen the colour
of a blessing? This is it.The first time I ever suffered
was in the three thousand and sixty seconds
after I was born.
I listened for her heartbeat.
I searched for her light.
I cried for the first time until she was born.
Have you ever known
a blessing? A twin is it.”Kamand Kojouri
“Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.”
Kamand Kojouri
“You must be more alive than life.
You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
You must be more awake than light
for we aren’t born sleeping
and we shouldn’t live sleeping.
Only then will death’s slumber
become sweet.”Kamand Kojouri
“At a night like this,
where it’s just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.”Kamand Kojouri
“By loving you,
I learn everything
because your soul
contains the entire universe.”Kamand Kojouri
“We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.”
Kamand Kojouri
“I am humbled by the grace of God.
I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.
Humbled by others’ kindness.
Humbled by life.
I drop down to my knees and give thanks.”Kamand Kojouri
“If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.”
Kamand Kojouri
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.”
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