Category Archives: Spiritual poetry

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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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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The apology

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

“I’m sorry,” says the soul, laying itself open to examination to the beauty, the wounds, the pus © Meisaan Chan

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Depth of God

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Depth of God always spilling over You will know you’re holding it when you cannot, and feel the spilling © Meisaan Chan

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Because they can spot it from a mile away

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

The people you want to impress might not even be looking! Fear not being invisible fear being inauthentic © Meisaan Chan

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Burdens: A perspective

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

From the perspective of the ant, the mountain is eternal From the perspective of the cosmos, the mountain is less than an atom of an ant © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)

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