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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
For those who long for balance
Balance is often not simply givenBalance is the work of workIf you wait for balance to beam down from above,you could be waiting for a long time;If you work for balance, sacrifice for it,you will find it sooner © Meisaan … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anxiety, balance, courage, encouragement, hope
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A Meditation for Focus
Pull up the distractions like weedsto find the flower of your focus Pull weeds, find focusweeds grow, pull again © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged distractions, focus, meditation
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Stay alert: Safety and danger are impermanent
Stay alert: Safety can change to dangerand danger can change to safety;the blue sky turns blackthe black sky turns blue;the place of danger is now a place of refugewhich can change back to a place of danger again. Ducks know … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged alert, alertness, danger, duck, duck spirituality, impermanence, safety
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Be not afraid of brokenness
Be not afraid of brokennessas a duckling emerges from the shell knows:Brokenness means lifeBrokenness means growthBrokenness means hopeBrokenness means beginnings 6/16/2020
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged brokenness, hardship, help, help me, starting over, struggle
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What the birds know
The rain slows, then stopsbirds start singingworld wet, needs music Clouds thick, then thinthen finally break. No matter:Birds do not need sun to sing © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged compassion, coronavirus, earth spirituality, hope, love, spirituality
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Intimate longing
The leaves rustle against each other like gentle rainas the trees know what we do not:earth and sky long for each other, intimately © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged Earth poetry, intimacy, intimate, longing, mysticism, Poetry, union
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Exposure
The longer the exposurethe deeper in it goesboth life-giving and death-givingstay alert © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, distraction, exposure, longing, meditation
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Spirituality of the spiral
When life sends you around againlook for the deeper;do not go around in a circlego in a spiral © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, help, help me, journey, loss, spirituality
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Even goodness needs to be adapted to
Even goodness needs to be adapted to,when you are used to squalorwhen the patterns of refuse have set in so deepthat you are simply used to throwing yourself away;Even goodness needs to be adapted totake your timestay gentle © Meisaan … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged healing, infinity, love, self-care, self-love, spirituality
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Maple tree lesson
You can look at realitybut there is a reality within the reality –do you see? Do you see the deeper reality within the maple tree?Within everything? © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged earth spirituality, maple tree, sight, vision
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Curving toward the center 