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Spiritual progress

If you’re concerning yourself with your progress you are not yet contemplating eternity © Meisaan Chan

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How far you have brought me along

How far you have brought me along and how far there is to go! If I had known the path was so brutal I never would have started; if I had known the path was so exquisite I would have … Continue reading

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The good teacher

doesn’t punish but knows that failure and hardship teach in ways that comfort never can © Meisaan Chan

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Detours

Some of them lead you astray some of them are the path © Meisaan Chan

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Non-attachment

My path can lead you right into the mess and then it can lead you right out of it © Meisaan Chan

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Balance, again

I. You work so hard for me; do not forget to rest for me II. I will push you but I will never push you over only you can do that © Meisaan Chan

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Ritual

Ritual can be a shelter for safety or a well-trod path home or a deep, deep hole © Meisaan Chan

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Incrementality

Slowly you raise the heat until slowly I acclimate then slowly you raise it again until I boil for you © Meisaan Chan

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The tentative

You can hide for as long as you wish, says the Lord, but there is food in my outstretched hand © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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I am the way

Truly, perhaps all is journey: he did not say, “I am the end.” © Meisaan Chan

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