The document discusses welcoming awareness and emotions through a poem by Rumi called "The Guest House". It encourages treating all emotions, whether good or bad, with honor and seeing them as guides that allow for personal growth. Suffering can produce perseverance, character, and hope if faced with awareness and choice. Overall it promotes finding the positive even in struggles and trials by choosing to see them as opportunities for growth and maturity.
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3. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
This being human is a guest
house, every morning a new arrival.
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
Welcome and entertain them all!
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
Even if they¡¯re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture.
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
Still, treat each guest honorably.
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
He may be clearing you
out for some new delight.
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
The dark thought, the shame, the
malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
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Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House¡°
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
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Welcoming Awareness
Welcome and entertain all of our
emotions whether they be good or
bad.
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Welcoming Awareness
Treat these emotions honorably.
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Welcoming Awareness
It may take having this emotion to
allow you
to move beyond the suffering.
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Welcoming Awareness
Delight in where you are
because of
where you have been.
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Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story - Metaphor
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Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story ¨C Metaphor - Poem
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Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story ¨C Metaphor ¨C Poem
Sacred Writing
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Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story ¨C Metaphor ¨C Poem
Sacred Writing - Experience
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Welcoming Awareness
Possibility of a positive outcome
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Welcoming Awareness
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and
sisters,
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Welcoming Awareness
whenever you face trials of many kinds,
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Welcoming Awareness
because you know that the testing of
your faith produces perseverance.
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Welcoming Awareness
Let perseverance finish its work
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Welcoming Awareness
so that you may be mature and
complete,
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Welcoming Awareness
And hope does not put us to shame.
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Welcoming Awareness
With awareness of choice, we can
develop perseverance, character and
hope that allow us to become the
person we are meant to be.
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Welcoming Awareness
Conclusion
Of
Welcoming Awareness
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Welcoming Awareness
Be sure to listen
To the Visioning Exercise
That follows this lesson.