In one of his best-known poems: ‘The Guest House,” Rumi uses the metaphor of the human being as a kind of ‘guest house’, which every day must accept new arrivals: joy, meanness, melancholy, and so on.
Rumi’s lesson is that we should welcome and entertain all of these unexpected guests, for they all serve a purpose. Even a flurry of sorrows may arrive with a purpose: to clear us out ready for the arrival of happiness the following day …
The Village Market 
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