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Tag Archives: darkness
The pilgrimage path
As the soles of your shoes crunch on the road steady your heart remember the goal: the pilgrimage path leads to the ever unseeable deeper © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Two indications
If I never challenge then it isn’t me if I never comfort then it isn’t me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged challenge, comfort, darkness, hardship, hope, light, strength
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The unknowing space
Bring me past my anxiety to the unknowing space and in the unknowing, unjudging and in the unjudging, openness, letting all things flow through until I am flown through and in this all-unknowing, flowing through, peace © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anxiety, darkness, peace, solace, unknowing, unseen, worry
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You can line up your prayers, one by one
You can line up your prayers, one by one or unfurl your prayers like smoke, effusive: Take comfort: I receive them all, even those that have no light © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
The path of emptiness
Let go of suffering – what are you to do with it? Let go of joy – what are you to do with it? For you will not lose what you think you will lose and you will not gain … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged control, darkness, happiness, joy, light, relinquishment, sorrow, suffering
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Peering into the blackness
You strain so hard, peering into the blackness when your only task is to breathe, open-armed, clothed in wondrous dark © Meisaan Chan
Posted in recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged blackness, breathe, dark, darkness, freedom, relinquishment, surrender, uncertainty, unknown
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The sky gently burns and glows down
The sky gently burns and glows down as we gather to greet the dark © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged community, darkness, friendship, light, waiting
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Do not despair
Do not despair, says the Lord I am not finished yet © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Spiritual poetry
Tagged darkness, despair, hardship, hope, light, strength
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Following
Through the din, listen: you know the sound of my voice follow what you know Follow what you don’t know as one unseen step leads to another, unseen for I am the darkness, the unknown path I am the mysterious … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, darkness, journey, light, mystery, paradox, path, understanding, unknown, vision
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Middle-of-the-night friends
In the panic of the night call on them, don’t be shy let the bonds of steel reveal themselves – to Timothy M.Smith © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged connection, darkness, friend, friendship, light, panic, trust
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Curving toward the center 