Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, I'm going to share a poem that will

help us embrace more aspects of life and meet them with curiosity.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so this is a poem by Rumi.

I don't know if I've shared it on this podcast before, but if I did, it's worth

hearing again, and if you've heard it already, it's definitely worth hearing again.

It's called The Guest House, and if you have heard it before, see what it's like to listen

as if hearing it for the first time, and if you haven't heard it before, just see what

it's like to listen for the first time, and you can always make poetry a form of practice

itself listening to poetry.

So whether you're driving right now, sitting, walking, standing, you don't necessarily need

to be still.

But see if you can access that place within you that is more still, and really receive

the words in that place.

So here we go, The Guest House by Rumi.

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 and says, welcome and entertain them all.

Even if there are crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still

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