If you haven't read Rumi, you are in for a treat. Rumi's passionate, playful poems find and celebrate scared life in everyday existence. They speak across all traditions, to all peoples: Read Rumi and be transported inward to that vast expanse of love. Rumi's Love Poems
"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 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 whomever 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 the Friend.
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. The undressing and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief."
Translated by Coleman Barks
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