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Reflexion by Odilon Redon

This being human is a guest house

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This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still, treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you outfor some new delight. The dark…

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Tilda Swinton recites Rumi's 12th Century Poem: 'Like This'

Tilda Swinton recites Rumi’s 12th Century Poem: ‘Like This’

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The beautiful and transcendental love poems of Sufi mystic Rumi meets the modern day artist Tilda Swinton in this evocative reading of the poem 'Like this'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Yb7HQMqRg If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say, Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulness of…

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