The Guest House
by Rumi (رومی)
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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.
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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.
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The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
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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 راØتی 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