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Category Archives: Poetry
The call to resurrection
Being who you are is a death to who they want you to be: But resurrection! Resurrection! © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged burden, help, independence, life, sacrifice, self-actualization, self-knowledge
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Beyond stereotypes
Compassion is not about being nice; compassion is about self-control and using fire to cleanse, not to destroy © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged compassion, disease, healing, health, justice, life
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I never disappear, says the Lord
I never disappear, says the Lord so if you don’t find me on the surface find me in the depths © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged depths, eternity, food, infinity, looking, loss, nourishment, search, surface
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A prayer when in shards
O God of union heal my fragmented soul for eternity is but one everlasting yes and I, in shards, am far from it © Meisaan Chan
All the ways you comfort me!
All the ways you comfort me! All the ways that words become hands and hands become sweet, soothing balm, all the ways word becomes flesh © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged balm, comfort, help, help me, love, tender, tenderness
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Practicing focus is the practice of sacrifice
To sacrifice the moment’s gratification for something bigger is a practice that strengthens the soul a type of burning, brandishing fire © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anchor, Buddhism, contemplation, emptiness, meditation, nothing, purification, sacrifice, solidity
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Dimensions
Happiness is one-dimensional Joy is two-dimensional Suffering is three-dimensional Praise is all, all, all © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged dimensions, happiness, journey, joy, suffering
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What are you looking for?
What are you looking for? Look at you as you look: be aware of what you truly seek © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged completion, emptiness, fullness, looking, search, searching
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The way out
claim your emptiness claim your helplessness claim me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged emptiness, helplessness, presence, strength, surrender, trust, weakness
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In the face of hardship or risk or uncertainty
Spend 99% of your energy determining if you are on the right path. When you are, everything else is irrelevant. Just keep going. © Meisaan Chan
Curving toward the center 