Daily Archives: February 21, 2022

Beginning of Happiness

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What

Do sad people have in

Common?

It seems

They have all built a shrine

To the past

And often go there

And do a strange wail and

Worship.

What is the beginning of

Happiness?

It is to stop being

So religious

Like That.

― شمس الدین محمد حافظ /
Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez,
(1325 – 1389 )

(“The Gift” – versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)