Rumi: What Was Said to the Rose
read by Coleman Barks
what need have you
Gone to the Unseen
At last you have departed and gone to the Unseen.
What marvelous route did you take from this world?
Beating your wings and feathers,
you broke free from this cage.
Rising up to the sky
you attained the world of the soul.
You were a prized falcon trapped by an Old Woman.
Then you heard the drummer’s call
and [...]
Rumi: The Guest House
THE GUEST HOUSE
There is work ahead! Face your deficiencies
consciously and don’t beat yourself up about them.
“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, [...]
a wise diver will seek it out
where did it all go
the dancing the love and the music
could it be that none was there
or it was but all
[...]
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