Tag Archives: meditation

If you want to know yourself

If you want to know yourself, seek the crowd! and define who you are and who you are not If you want to know yourself, seek the desert! and find who you are when you are beyond repair © Meisaan … Continue reading

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Direct connection

You cannot acknowledge the mind-body-spirit connection and not acknowledge the importance of sleep © Meisaan Chan

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The ever-approaching path that spirals to the center

The remembering, the forgetting, the remembering, the forgetting, the remembering, the forgetting the remembering, the forgetting, the remembering © Meisaan Chan

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Internal stillness

Not even the sound of water: shafts of light frozen in the sky © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Getting out of the rut

I will give you times for rest, says the Lord but how you often pass over my gift for the rut © Meisaan Chan

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The forgetting

Rushing through the day trying to get everything done so that nothing falls through the cracks and I’m so focused on this that you do fall © Meisaan Chan

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Another hotel sunrise

Six birds flying low on the crimson horizon, their silhouetted bodies a line against the canvas; two cyclists ride by on the country road, their bent-over bodies, one beside the other, another moving line; thin clouds start to glow, the first … Continue reading

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Without, within

Silence not a drop of noise © Meisaan Chan

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Trust in slowness

Trust in slowness trust in trusting rhythm trust in the breath © Meisaan Chan

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Contemplation

When the soul sits down tucks paw under chin and gazes © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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