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Category Archives: recovery
It depends what you want
My path does not guarantee fame or glory or the fulfillment of your desires. My path guarantees me. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged desires, fame, journey, manifesting, path, popularity, purity, struggle, Wish fulfillment
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Sickness can leave you helpless
Sickness can leave you helpless: It can remove your arms and your legs and your courage and your piece but if given to me it can become the whetstone as your journey continues on © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged assistance, Click save draft save draft, frailty, help, help me, illness, loss, sickness, strength, surrender, whetstone
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The clay and the potter
You make a lot of pots, my Lord: I do not ask to be a pot I do not ask not to be a pot just touch me, Lord; keep your hands in me until I am done: that is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged clay, formation, Pot, Potter, surrender, transformation, trust
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The Promise: I Give You What You Need
The extent to which I can trust this is the extent to which I stand on solid ground; the extent to which I cannot trust this is the extent to which the ground rips apart © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged ground, promise, providence, solidity, surrender, trust
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Pure courage
The self can be overtaken what is Beyond cannot – root yourself in this © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, ego, foundation, grounding, identity, journey, path, roots, Self
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When you desire that one thing
When you desire that one thing all other desires are subordinate. This could be the death of you. This could be the life of you. © Meisaan Chan
Surrender and praise: The oneness
True praise will surrender True surrender will praise © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged awe, Click save draft, humility, praise, sublime, surrender, union, wonder
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Ownership
If you do not renounce the world, it will own you © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged discipline, emptiness, humility, impermanence, ownership, submission, surrender
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Flower bouquet, II
Nothing knows the power of community Nothing knows the impermanence of community then a bouquet of flowers © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged Buddhism, Buddhist, Click save draft, community, flowers, impermanence, power, strength, weakness
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Flower bouquet, I
At first, I am overwhelmed by beauty I am blinded slowly, though, my eyes adjust and I start to see the subtle illness the subtle death the subtle imperfection and all of this gives me pause for praise, comfort, and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged beauty, Buddhism, Buddhist, Click save draft, death, emptiness, flowers, illness, imperfection, impermanence
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Curving toward the center 