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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
My warriors
wield compassion in their empty hands © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged Buddhism, compassion, emptiness, nothing, samurai, warrior
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Impermanence
The forest will never die, say the trees The desert will never relent, says the sand © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged blindness, Buddhism, burden, hardship, hope, impermanence, resilience, strength, suffering, vision
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What you worship
Be careful of the altar you choose. This is your most fundamental decision. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged abandonment, altar, idol, obedience, praise, service, worship
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In gratitude
All the ways you love me! I give you my most costly gift: I unlock another door © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged gift, gratitude, intimacy, love, surrender, vulnerability
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Sometimes life doesn’t unfold according to plan
Sometimes life doesn’t unfold according to plan as if it were one big origami crane slowly unwrapping, wanting to fly away from itself; in times like these, protect me from self-loathing, where I could so easily crumple it all up … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged disappointment, failure, healing, hope, love, origami, persistence, resilience, suffering, tenderness
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Taking up so much space
Self-pity blunts blessing desensitizes the spirit covers over the sun © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged awareness, blessing, grief, growth, healing, self-pity
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Out of nothing, the gift appears
Out of nothing, the gift appears: that is the way of the God of creation © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged compassion, generosity, gift, help, nothing, rescue, void
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One path of the feminine
allows God to pursue and then to woo and then she deliberates and weighs, and ponders, and tests and then she decides upon the yes and the yes and the yes and the yes, opening the gates of her garden; … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged delight, discernment, garden, intimacy, union, vulnerability
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Curving toward the center 