Guest House
by Rumi
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning is a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness.
Some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all.
Treat each guest honorably.
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.
~Rumi
THE GIFT IN THE LESSONThe Guest House has comforted during troubled times and salved an aching heart with the reminder, that it is all a part of the heights and depths of the human experience. That it is all a lesson wrapped as a gift… and sometimes a gift wrapped as a lesson.
If it is in our lives, we can try to view it as “for me” rather than “to me”. Interesting what a difference just one little word makes. If you have trouble thinking of some of your struggles, especially those apparently inflicted by others as “a gift”… consider that to view it so is to empower yourself to discover the gem in the dirt.
To sift the gem from the dirt and hold it to the light of the heart is to illuminate its brilliance… and to make sacred the struggle.
For some wonderful video-music renditions of ‘Guest House’, as well as The Prayer of Saint Francis and Calling all Angels…
please visit this article, poems and videos here.Feel free to share your thoughts, or creative projects you're working on, in a reply or
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~ LeAura & Devani
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