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I am creative, methodical, persistent, passive and a little neurotic. Drawing, reading randomly and floating into the sea are the best things I'm able to do. I've got here some drawings I've done. There are also poems I've read. I like coming here to read them again, just in case their meaning have changed.

10 April 2015

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!
Even if they are 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 whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.



Jelaluddin Rumi

(translation by Coleman Barks)






la casa d'hostes

Aquest ésser humà és una casa d'hostes.
Cada matí una nova arribada.
Una alegria, una depressió, un mesquinesa,
Un momentani instant de lucidesa
Arriba com un convidat inesperat.
Dóna'ls la benvinguda i entretén-los a tots!
Fins i tot si són una multitud de dolors què,
Violentament buiden els mobles de casa teva,
Encara, tracta cada convidat de manera honorable.
Ell potser et neteja per un nou delit.
El pensament fosc, la culpa, la maldat.
Rebe'ls a la porta amb un somriure i convide'ls a passar.
Sigues agrait per tot allò que be,
Perquè cadascun d'ells han estat enviats com un guia del més enllà.

Jelaluddin Rumi
(traducció Alvart)

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