Laura Erdman-Luntz, MA, E-RYT(500) | Yoga | Yoga Teacher Training | Minnesota | Costa Rica | Life Coaching

The Guest House by Rumi

 

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'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 has been sent 
as a guide from beyond.

~ Rumi

 

So, how is your mind looking at what happens?

Rainer Maria Rilke

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Be Patient

 

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” 
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Keep Your Yoga Practice Open

"If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions,
to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter,
without closing down, trusting that you can do that --
then that will take you as far as you can go."
~ Pema Chodron

Growth

"Evolution guides your destiny and mine.
Your nature is to grow and change, to become greater and wiser, deeper and richer.
Growth is like a rushing river.
Boulders may slow its path or redirect its flow, but they cannot stop its currents.
When the farmer removes stones from the creek, its waters seep into every corner of his fields."
~Villoldo

Peace Within


May today there be peace within.
May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you remember the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others.
May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content with yourself just the way you are.
Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom
to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.

~ St. Teresa

Prayer from St. Francis of Assisi

"Lord make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy."

~ St. Francis of Assisi

Inspiration: From Max Strom

"Remember, the goal is not to tie ourseles in knots - we're already tied in knots. 
The aim is to untie the knots in oru heat. 
The aim is to unite with the ultimate, loving, and peaceful power of the universe
and fully awaken into the highest level of human consciousness."
~ Max Strom

 

 

Inspiration: From Rumi

"I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying,
who empty the self and have only clear being there."

~ Rumi