The Guest House
by Rumi (رومی)
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 has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”- رومی (Rumi)
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” رومی (Rumi)
"Where there is Ruin there is Hope for a Treasure"
- رومی (Rumi: Persian Poet)
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you'
- رومی (Rumi: Persian Poet)
بعد از هر سختی، یک راحتی است
All the parts of me
I once abandoned,
I decided one day
I would walk them
back home
one by one
And when all
the pieces of me
were finally together
finding themselves
under the same roof
once again,
I realized
I had always been beautiful
-S.C. Lourie