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rumi said “this being human is a guest house.” and i have spent great time in mine, in the very beginning slipping through the cracks in the floorboards after the rug was pulled out from under me. i spent a lot of time in a painful free fall grasping at straws and feeling like i was alice, tumbling down a rabbit hole only i could see. but there’s no sense in abandoning your own guest house, i think. my homage to rumi is still living in mine. the basement still counts.
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Apr 27, 2011
Apr 27, 2011 at 10:49 PM UTC
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rumi said “this being human is a guest house.” and i have spent great time in mine, in the very beginning slipping through the cracks in the floorboards after the rug was pulled out from under me. i spent a lot of time in a painful free fall grasping at straws and feeling like i was alice, tumbling down a rabbit hole only i could see. but there’s no sense in abandoning your own guest house, i think. my homage to rumi is still living in mine. the basement still counts.
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Apr 27, 2011
Apr 27, 2011 at 10:49 PM UTC
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