I understand this line
- Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows
the way I understand these lines from Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah":
- Even though it all went wrong
I stand before the Lord of Song
with nothing on my tongue
but Hallelujah
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
Rumi's is something else, isn't it? Is it alright if I share? Fihi Ma Fihi 26 The human condition is like this:
an angel's wing was brought
and tied to a donkey's tail
so that the donkey perchance
might take on the qualities
of the angel,
whose radiance falls on it.