This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival
A joy, a depression, a meanness
some momentary awareness comes
as a unexpected visitor
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even is they're 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.
~Say I Am You poems of Ruminator
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