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Tag Archives: connection
Where you are connected makes all the difference
I move the candle to the shadows so its flame is better seen:The shadow means nothing to the flame becausethe flame is connected to the wick, not to the shadow;the light means nothing to the flame becausethe flame is connected … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Parable, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged candle, connection, source
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When someone is upset at you
When someone is upset at you, receive their distress: Right and wrong intertwine, so let go of them! Focus instead on closer and further apart © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anger, community, connection, friend, healing, intimacy, love, lover
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Irreversible welding
Weld me to you and may it be irreversible, I cry to the Lord. I can do the first, but only you can do the second, the Lord says to me. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged connection, help, help me, love, surrender, union, unity, Welding
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Nothing is not connected
Nothing is not connected healing feeds all resentment poisons all © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged brokenness, connection, healing, resentment, unity
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The end of aimlessness
When I, alone, drift through the cosmos, tether me to your heart; may I trust in the strength of its hold on me and watch as the tether pulls taught © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged alone, company, connection, cosmos, heart, help me, isolation, loneliness, tether, union
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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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God is love
Humans have the wondrous tendency to make the simplest things impossible © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged acceptance, community, companion, connection, imperfection, love
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Approaching as close as we allow
Hijabbed woman next to me, reading morning prayer silent teen across from me, eyes closed hunched man engrossed by his indefatigable phone: All the ways we enter our days all the ways you enter them with us approaching as close … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged connection, Islam, isolation, presence, technology, union
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Togetherness
The dark is thick so stick together don’t go through the night alone © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged community, connection, dark, healing, isolation, light, strength, writing
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The mutual bleeding
I have hurt you and in hurting you, I bleed © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged companion, connection, friendship, healing, hurt, wound, wounding, writing
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Curving toward the center 