Rumi
The Guest House · Reading Note
A small reading-note page for Rumi’s famous image of welcoming inner weather.
Why return to it: The image is useful in ordinary life: grief, irritation, and joy all arrive as visitors rather than final identities.
Source note: This page uses an original paraphrase and reading note; many modern translations are copyrighted.
Original / noted line
The Guest House · Reading Note
Every morning a new arrival: joy, sadness, meanness, or some unexpected awareness.
English transliteration
Transliteration
Har subah ek naya mehman: khushi, udaasi, tang-dili, ya koi achanak roshni.
Poetic English rendering
Rendering
Treat the heart as a house of arrivals. Do not mistake any visitor for the whole house.