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What we speak
Becomes the house we live in.

Who will want to sleep in your bed
If the roof leaks
Right above it?

Look what happens when the tongue
Cannot say to kindness,
“I will be your slave.”

The moon
Covers her face with both hands
And can’t bear
To look.



A poem attributed to Hafiz, as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky in The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master. The focus is on the transformative and architectural power of human speech. The source explains that Hafiz’s words are not mere metaphors but rather statements of metaphysics, asserting that what a person speaks literally shapes the vibrational field and reality they inhabit. By breaking the poem into sections, the text warns that misaligned or unkind speech creates an unstable inner world or "leaky roof," illustrating the concept by linking it to Sufi and Vedic traditions where sound is a layer of reality. Ultimately, the analysis concludes that to align one’s utterance with kindness and truth is to construct a "house of light," reinforcing the idea that speech is structural and generative, not merely descriptive.

1. “What we speak becomes the house we live in”

This is not metaphor. It is metaphysics.
In the Vedic and Sufi traditions, sound is a layer of reality.
Speech is not descriptive—it is generative.
The words you speak shape the vibrational field you inhabit.

Just as the rishi perceives mantra as a luminous structure, and the Sufi dissolves into the Divine Name, Hafiz is saying:
Your utterance is your architecture.
Your speech is your shelter—or your exposure.

2. “Who will want to sleep in your bed if the roof leaks?”

This is a warning about incoherence.
If your words are misaligned—if they leak fear, bitterness, or distortion—your inner world becomes unstable.
The seer knows: every word is a beam, a wall, a roof.
If your speech is fractured, your dwelling is unsafe.

3. “Look what happens when the tongue cannot say to kindness, ‘I will be your slave.’”

This is the heart of dhikr, mantra, and sacred utterance.
To speak in service of kindness is to align with the Real.
To offer your tongue to love is to become a vessel of divine vibration.

The rishi does not speak from ego.
The Sufi does not recite from habit.
The seer speaks only what is seen.

4. “The moon covers her face with both hands and can’t bear to look.”

This is the cosmic witness recoiling from misaligned speech.
In mystical terms, the moon is the reflector of light.
When speech is out of tune, even the reflector turns away.


The Transformative Power of Speech

In our previous 3 part conversation, we’ve seen that:

Mantra is not invented—it is perceived.
Dhikr is not repetition—it is resonance.
The Word is not symbolic—it is structural.

Hafiz is saying the same:
Your words are not decorations.
They are vibrations.
They are the house you live in.

To speak is to build.
To utter is to shape.
To align your speech with kindness, truth, and perception is to dwell in a house of light.

That is the seer’s house.
That is the mystic’s dwelling.
That is the architecture of the Real.