Rumi -This Being Human is a Guest House

Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and attend them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Welcome difficulty.

Learn the alchemy True Human Beings know:
the moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given,
the door opens.

Welcome difficulty as a familiar comrade.
Joke with torment brought by a Friend.

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets
that serve to cover, and then are taken off.

That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

Rumi

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About Steven Goodheart

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them." Spinoza

4 Responses to “Rumi -This Being Human is a Guest House”

  1. Spring time.

    Life is becoming vibrant yet again.

    Reliable Life.

    Spring is a change that we can count will be so.

    Wonderful Life.

    How lucky we are to be alive beside the life that we are.

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