<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Thank you for sharing this with us, Carlie! And thank you for sharing some wise words with me after meditation last Friday about embracing that which hurts in order to ease the pain. Good medicine!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've been drunk on Rumi before and I now see the wavering soul light of spiritual fumes in the hallways of eternal truths, and somehow the doors have been left wide open...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Blessings, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ Ed</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Carlie Abbott via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 6/4/23 8:08 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Spirit house community panel <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Subject: [Thespiritexpress] Rumi Poem </div><div><br></div></div>
<p>Friday during Shaking yoga and meditation I was pointed to Rumi's
The Guest House by Toni & Lee. I wanted to share it with
you. For me it allows me to accept all that comes into my life
with love. Hope you enjoy. Carlie<br>
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255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This being human is a
guest house.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;
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Every morning a new arrival.</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A joy, a depression, a
meanness,<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; font: inherit;">
some momentary awareness comes<br style="box-sizing: border-box;
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as an unexpected visitor.</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Welcome and entertain
them all!<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; font: inherit;">
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,<br style="box-sizing:
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who violently sweep your house<br style="box-sizing: border-box;
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empty of its furniture,<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin:
0px; padding: 0px; font: inherit;">
still, treat each guest honorably.<br style="box-sizing:
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He may be clearing you out<br style="box-sizing: border-box;
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for some new delight.</p>
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255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The dark thought, the
shame, the malice.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; font: inherit;">
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.</p>
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0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 20px;
line-height: inherit; font-family: FSPBookRegular, sans-serif;
font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Be grateful for whatever
comes.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; font: inherit;">
because each has been sent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;
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as a guide from beyond.</p>
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