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Tag Archives: burden
The load
“You can put down your load,” God says. “I can’t,” I say. “This is not how you were meant to live,” God says. “I can’t,” I say. “You can’t or you won’t?” God asks. “I no longer know how,” I … Continue reading
One way out of wallowing
Yes, it’s muddy and sometimes your face is right in it but don’t lose hold of your curiosity or you might miss it © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Switchbacks
When there is a mountain to climb do not expect the straight road © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Burdens: A perspective
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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Tagged blindness, burden, freedom, perspective, vision, writing
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Using different vision
Each wave takes such tremendous resilience to withstand but using different vision: the life! The life! © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, blindness, burden, hardship, journey, joy, life, perspective, vision, writing
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Slow going
Sometimes it’s slow going because the path dissolved; but keep plodding, slow as it is © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged burden, community, hardship, resilience, slow, tenacity, trial, turtle, writing
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The mobile altar
If you can no longer carry your burden put it down and build and altar right there, offering it up for altars can always be built where they are needed © Meisaan Chan
You might despair at the interminable path
You might despair at the interminable path but the stones have been laid by your spiritual ancestors knowing your feet would come © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
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Tagged ancestors, burden, community, despair, hardship, journey, loneliness, path, writing
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Burdenless
If all is submitted before the altar of the Lord then there is nothing else to carry © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged altar, anxiety, burden, courage, gift, submission, surrender, worry, writing
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Impermanence
The forest will never die, say the trees The desert will never relent, says the sand © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged blindness, Buddhism, burden, hardship, hope, impermanence, resilience, strength, suffering, vision
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Curving toward the center 