Here's another delightful poem by Rumi. Savor - and enjoy!
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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 entertain 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 one has been sent as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi
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And of course, we can meet all these 'guests' laughing, and invite them in, if we are sufficiently grounded and operating from an authentic space, without losing ourselves in the stories and dramas underlying the difficult emotions.
Kiki ;-)
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
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