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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
God, make me fearless for you
God, make me fearless for you: be my breath and my strength and my courage and my ferocity and my every atom so that even if my blood is shed fearless: my blood is shed © Meisaan Chan
If you want to know yourself
If you want to know yourself, seek the crowd! and define who you are and who you are not If you want to know yourself, seek the desert! and find who you are when you are beyond repair © Meisaan … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged community, contemplation, meditation, self-knowledge, solitude
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Direct connection
You cannot acknowledge the mind-body-spirit connection and not acknowledge the importance of sleep © Meisaan Chan
Posted in recovery, writing
Tagged body, connection, meditation, mind, rest, sleep, spirit
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God is love
Humans have the wondrous tendency to make the simplest things impossible © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged acceptance, community, companion, connection, imperfection, love
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The apology
“I’m sorry,” says the soul, laying itself open to examination to the beauty, the wounds, the pus © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged apology, forgiveness, honestly, nakedness, vulnerable
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Depth of God
Depth of God always spilling over You will know you’re holding it when you cannot, and feel the spilling © Meisaan Chan
Because they can spot it from a mile away
The people you want to impress might not even be looking! Fear not being invisible fear being inauthentic © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged authentic, courage, inauthentic, vulnerability
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Burdens: A perspective
From the perspective of the ant, the mountain is eternal From the perspective of the cosmos, the mountain is less than an atom of an ant © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged blindness, burden, freedom, perspective, vision, writing
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Approaching as close as we allow
Hijabbed woman next to me, reading morning prayer silent teen across from me, eyes closed hunched man engrossed by his indefatigable phone: All the ways we enter our days all the ways you enter them with us approaching as close … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged connection, Islam, isolation, presence, technology, union
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The ever-approaching path that spirals to the center
The remembering, the forgetting, the remembering, the forgetting, the remembering, the forgetting the remembering, the forgetting, the remembering © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged awareness, forgetting, meditation, mindfulness, remember
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Curving toward the center 