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Category Archives: recovery
If you want to know yourself
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
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged community, contemplation, meditation, self-knowledge, solitude
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Direct connection
You cannot acknowledge the mind-body-spirit connection and not acknowledge the importance of sleep © Meisaan Chan
Posted in recovery, writing
Tagged body, connection, meditation, mind, rest, sleep, spirit
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Because they can spot it from a mile away
The people you want to impress might not even be looking! Fear not being invisible fear being inauthentic © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged authentic, courage, inauthentic, vulnerability
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The ever-approaching path that spirals to the center
The remembering, the forgetting, the remembering, the forgetting, the remembering, the forgetting the remembering, the forgetting, the remembering © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged awareness, forgetting, meditation, mindfulness, remember
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The aftermath of the wave
The great wave has sunk into the sea and joined again that smooth, silver line; I, still gasping, wipe saltwater from my face examine my boat, and in the silence, start mending © Meisaan Chan
Ditto
“I just want you to love me for who I am, not for what I do,” I say to the Lord. “Ditto,” the Lord says to me. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged acceptance, awareness, humorous, love, openness, vulnerability
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Increments
The sun does not flounce into the sky with one brilliant leap but slowly crawls up the canvas in its own shifting light – even the most important thing to the earth comes in increments! – so, too, with discipline, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, discipline, earth, hardship, increment, journey, resilience, strength, sun, tenacity, wisdom
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Another case for fostering courage
Sometimes you don’t need the hand-holding as much as you thought, or the crutches or the safeguards – but without courage, you’ll never know © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bravery, courage, crutches, loss, safeguards, stubbornness, unknown, vulnerability
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Companion-choosing
Choose your companions for their wisdom and sincerity and compassion but do not look for perfection, that camouflaged destroyer of love © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged community, friendship, imperfection, love, lover, wisdom
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The manger empties
You take up so much space within yourself, says the Lord; when you empty self of self the manger empties so the child can be placed within © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged Buddhism, Christianity, ego, emptiness, humility, Jesus, manger
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Curving toward the center 