Embracing Your Life

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss a Rumi poem that helps us meet more moments of our life with softness, embracing whatever may come through the door of our metaphorical guest house.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host Cori Muscarra 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.
0:21.0	More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. The 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
0:59.8	hearing again, and if you've heard it already already it's definitely worth hearing again.
1:05.0	It's called the Guest House.
1:08.0	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
1:16.0	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
1:28.0	poetry and so whether you're driving right now sitting walking standing you don't necessarily need to be still but
1:38.3	see if you can access that place within you that is more still and really receive the words in that place.
1:49.2	So here we go.
1:50.9	The guest house by Rumi.
1:54.2	This being human is a guest house.
1:59.0	Every morning a new arrival,
2:05.0	a joy, a depression, a meanness.
2:18.0	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.
2:25.0	Still, treat each guest honorably.
2:30.0	They may be clearing you out for some new delight.
2:33.0	The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
2:38.0	meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
2:42.0	Be grateful for whoever comes,
2:45.0	because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
2:50.0	Hmm. So that is the guest house by Rumi. Notice how it lands for you. This is one of my favorite poems. I probably recite it too much, but I think
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