Category Archives: Poetry

The power of receiving

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

God receives all screaming God receives all anguish God receives all confusion There is nothing she cannot receive © Meisaan Chan

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The answer

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

“God, what is happening?” I ask. “Remember your anchor,” God says. “But what is happening?” I ask. “Remember your anchor,” God says. © Meisaan Chan

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You are not Kuan Yin of a thousand hands

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Before you pick up the next thing please put down something you’re holding: keep the balance © Meisaan Chan

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Considering who’s in charge

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

If God does not expect perfection in humans why would God expect perfection from religion? © Meisaan Chan

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Listening through them

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Gather your advisers but listen for me © Meisaan Chan

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A note to the observer

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Humans bring beauty and mess with them wherever they go so if you happen to see a human, expect it: beauty and mess beauty and mess © Meisaan Chan

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Switchbacks

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

When there is a mountain to climb do not expect the straight road © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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God, make me fearless for you

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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

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If you want to know yourself

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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God is love

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Humans have the wondrous tendency to make the simplest things impossible © Meisaan Chan

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