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Category Archives: spirituality
God-usury
IIt is startlingly easy to forget you in the good timesand remember you in times of need;protect my heart from usurythis poison that seeps within and radiates out II“I remember you only when I need you,” I say, hanging my … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, spirituality, writing
Tagged love, prayer
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Pacing yourself
There is always more to do– you know this –so why despair that there is more to do? © Meisaan Chan
When I am known and unknown
Sometimes I see what I am to become:New flesh, reborn –Sometimes all is dark, wrapped tight:The chrysalis tightly closed © Meisaan Chan
The presence of ego
Ego returns to its seat in the clarityEgo takes the stage in the disturbance © Meisaan Chan
Posted in contemplation, meditation, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, spirituality, writing
Tagged ego, humility, pride, surrender
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Return to the womb, says the Lord
Return to the womb, says the LordQuestions do not need to be answered there.You do not even need to know the questions there.The darkness is safety.The warmth is safety.The breath is free and safe.Return to the womb © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, depression, Feminine God, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, spirituality, writing
Tagged Goddess, help, help me, safety, womb
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Pernicious comfort
Sometimes discomfort is precisely what is neededto move to better places;comfort can be perniciousas we settleand settleand settle © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, spirituality, writing
Tagged comfort, discomfort, growth, help, help me
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Discomforting change: The price of openness
Openness is not always comfortableor the outcome of the status quo;if you want to be open, analyze the pricehonestly discern your willingness © Meisaan Chan
Offerings
In the silence, incense burns;in the fragrance, mind lifts © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Buddhism, contemplation, Embodied Meditation, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, spirituality, writing
Tagged Buddhism, Hinduism
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Tree spirituality: fighting with sisters
Even in full sunlight, a tree’s leaves are still in shade,each leaf casting shadow over its sister leaf’s light;even when attached to the same branch, they get in each other’s way –They could start fightingor they could see that they … Continue reading
Posted in contemplation, Earth poetry, Feminine God, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, spirituality, writing
Tagged Conflict resolution, earth spirituality, forgiveness, humility
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The takers
Your mere existence takes resources, says the earth,and then you continue to takeand take and take and take and take –and then you pray for yet more things! –when really, you ought to be praying for your conversion © Meisaan … Continue reading
