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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
On externals
If you always demand to get your way your internal strength will never grow © Meisaan Chan
The beginning of the silent retreat
With resounding sound you welcome me home, a choir of angels breathe and release sweet rejoicing © Meisaan Chan
True and false Doing Nothing
True doing nothing is precision: Sharp knife False doing nothing is amorphous: Blunt rock © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged amorphous, distraction, nothing, precision, stillness
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I cannot carry your burden
I cannot carry your burden but I can carry your heart © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged companion, company, friendship, help, help me, isolation, soulmate
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The end of aimlessness
When I, alone, drift through the cosmos, tether me to your heart; may I trust in the strength of its hold on me and watch as the tether pulls taught © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged alone, company, connection, cosmos, heart, help me, isolation, loneliness, tether, union
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Night murmurs
Hush, hush, murmurs the Lord as she strokes me in the night I am all things for you: everything you need is everything I give, and more © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged Christmas, comfort, help, help me, love, sleep, sleeping, tenderness, vulnerability
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Grow, grow, says the gardener
Grow, grow, says the gardener; Let your roots reach deeper into unknown darkness so your branches can reach higher © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged branches, growth, roots
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After a good night’s sleep
Thank you, God, for sleep, for the riches you just gave me; may I disperse your gold well today and return tonight, spent and joyful-trusting © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged gold, intimacy, praise, rest, riches, sleep
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Whatever you give me, I will fill
Whatever you give me, I will fill: if you give me a corner of your house, I will fill it – but do not think I only fit in a corner of your house! If you give me an ocean … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged cosmos, eternity, infinity, limitations, limitless, unknowable, unseen
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Not being aware of your emptiness
Not being aware of your emptiness when you’re empty is like going grocery shopping on hungry stomach: You take anything © Meisaan Chan
Curving toward the center 