This being human is the guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
a momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture.
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
Meet them at the door laughing
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes
because each guest has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.
It was a unique soul, let me put it like that. Each one of our children is beautiful but none are perfect, and the intrinsic love that God has for any of his children is so deep that these type of elements are almost expected in his children.
You are so young; you stand before beginnings. I would like to beg of you,
dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in foreign languages. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. At present you need to live the question.
Money talks, but all mine ever says is good-bye.
A man boarded an airplane and took his seat. As he settled
in, he glanced up and saw the most beautiful woman
boarding the plane. He soon realized she was heading
straight towards his seat. As fate would have it, she took the
seat right beside his.
Eager to strike up a conversation he blurted out, 'Business
trip or pleasure?' She turned, smiled and said, 'Business.
I'm going to the Annual Nymphomaniacs of America
Convention, in Boston .' He swallowed hard. Here was the
most gorgeous woman, he had ever seen sitting next to him,
and she was going to a meeting of nymphomaniacs.
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered; the point is to discover them.