Dreamlessness

THE ESSENTIAL RUMI: Translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

The Essential Rumi (Penguin Classics)

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Title: The Essential Rumi (Penguin Classics)
Author: Jelaluddin Rumi

In the wake of another month of near-dreamlessness I turned to Rumi's poems. Letting the book fall open I found The Guest House to be just the nudge toward balancing my perspective that sleep dreams so often provide:

THE GUEST HOUSE

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!

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