For your RSS reader:
Top Posts & Pages
Tags
- abandon
- acceptance
- adventure
- anger
- anxiety
- awareness
- beauty
- blindness
- burden
- chaos
- comfort
- compassion
- contemplation
- coronavirus
- courage
- darkness
- death
- discernment
- door
- earth
- ego
- emptiness
- eternity
- faith
- fear
- focus
- freedom
- growth
- hardship
- healing
- heart
- help
- help me
- hope
- humility
- independence
- infinity
- intimacy
- journey
- joy
- life
- light
- listening
- loss
- lost
- love
- meditation
- obedience
- openness
- pain
- path
- peace
- power
- prayer
- presence
- rescue
- resilience
- rest
- silence
- spirit
- strength
- struggle
- submission
- suffering
- surrender
- transformation
- trust
- union
- unity
- unknown
- vision
- vulnerability
- weakness
- wisdom
- writing
Tag Archives: distraction
Portals to God
Portals to God are everywhere:Some, in a yellow tulip, others in a ritualBut careful: While ritual can open the doorit also can close it © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged Buddhism, distraction, focus, portals, religion, ritual, union
Leave a comment
Exposure
The longer the exposurethe deeper in it goesboth life-giving and death-givingstay alert © Meisaan Chan
Eliminations – or – Three Questions
If I eliminate noise, I will be able to meditate, I say but I am wrong: My mind prattles in silence If I eliminate body pain, I will be able to meditate, I say but I am wrong: I mind … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, meditation, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged contemplation, distraction, ego, focus, humility, meditation
Leave a comment
On distractions
Of course there are distractions, says the Lord: When there are others, they are the distraction, and when you are by yourself, you are the distraction! You can try to eliminate them but better yet, to be present and accept © … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, distraction, focus, meditation
1 Comment
Dilution
You can dilute your time with me, says the Lord but it will not be I who will be diluted © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, dilution, distraction, focus, meditation, prayer
Leave a comment
The calling to deepen: Recognizing your presence
Sometimes the world pulls me out sometimes I pull me out sometimes my fear pulls me out – it is a miracle that any progress is made at all! And this, once accepted, leads to clarity: Recognizing your presence at … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged concentration, contemplation, deepening, distraction, fear, focus, meditation, presence
Leave a comment
Why is distraction so coveted?
Why is distraction so coveted? Are we so afraid of ourselves? © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, distraction, focus, healing, meditation
Leave a comment
Tend to me
Sometimes just sitting can be a challenge you know my ways, O Lord; tend to me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, distraction, help, help me, meditation, silence, stillness
Leave a comment
True and false Doing Nothing
True doing nothing is precision: Sharp knife False doing nothing is amorphous: Blunt rock © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged amorphous, distraction, nothing, precision, stillness
Leave a comment
The small moment
I give you a small moment for you to catch your breath; please, do not use it for distraction © Meisaan Chan
Posted in God speaks poetry, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged break, contemplation, distraction, focus, help, help me, meditation, moment
Leave a comment
