Stop being so religious

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.

~ Hafiz (translated by David Ladinsky) 

Says Hafiz

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

-Hafiz