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This is not the place for “what you see is what you get” poetry. It is the pod for posting mystical poetry and discussing it.

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  Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator

Two people have shown me pieces of Rumi over the past two days...

Siona said Mar 6, 11:30 AM:
 

So I may as well share them both here. The first, I believe, is an excerpt:

You have said what you are.
I am what I am.
Your actions in my head,
my head here in my hands
with something circling inside.
I have no name
for what circles
so perfectly.

- Rumi

And then, a whole poem:

This being human is a guesthouse.
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 treat each guest honorably.
He may be cleaning 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 the beyond.

- Rumi

From Damian’s profile…

Can I just say again that I adore Rumi? 800 years old and still his presence is as powerful and immediate as ever. 
  Kundan : The Golden One

Re: Two people have shown me pieces of Rumi over the past two day

Kundan said Sep 3, 11:13 PM:
 

Wow! That's just like the emotionl instrument panel metaphor talked about by Abraham Hicks in Ask and It is Given - if we were flying an airplane and our instrument panel showed us that we are going down - we would not judge it for telling us that - rather, we would appreciate it, and then tip the nose upward, little by little. Our emotions are like that - they simply tell us where we are and how far away we are from Source - sometimes they simply tell us we are going down, down, down and we end up judging rather than appreciating.