#947929 added December 21, 2018 at 1:07pm Restrictions: None
Some Rumi: On Being Human
The actual poem by Rumi is titled, The Guest House. Its first stanza begins with with an awkward phrasing that is really, just so right in the way it trips the reader in a first pass at reading it.
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
The distinguishing statement of the whole poem comes at the end:
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide....
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