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Senior Member
How Do You Identify?:
bigender (DID System)
Preferred Pronoun?:
he/him or alter-specific
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Central TX
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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
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
- Bjork
What is to give light must endure burning.
-Viktor Frankl
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