Tag Archives: perspective

The case not to choose the mountain

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

You are an ant and your fears are a mountain but I am the universe and even beyond – a mountain is dust of the dust © Meisaan Chan

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You are not able to see it all

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

You are not able to see it all, says the Lord – when you keep this unknowing before you you keep humility before you © Meissan Chan

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Perspective

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Throughout the day, I turned the bouquet of flowers on my desk this way and that, gazing at a different curve of petal, a different spike of leaf: So gently they remind me that beauty is not contained in a … Continue reading →

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How you need to look

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Steep mountain trail curls through the forest in an unrelenting ribbon of rock and clay; I go forward, slowly, muscles burning on the climb; when I remember to look up, I see the also unrelenting beauty but some times demand … Continue reading →

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The sanctity of lightening up

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

When you can laugh at yourself that, too, is prayer © Meisaan Chan

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Take me where you want me to go

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Take me where you want me to go: my dreams for myself are so small, with you the realm of planets is at my feet © Meisaan Chan

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Burdens: A perspective

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

From the perspective of the ant, the mountain is eternal From the perspective of the cosmos, the mountain is less than an atom of an ant © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)

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Using different vision

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Each wave takes such tremendous resilience to withstand but using different vision: the life! The life! © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Perspective

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Big blackbird lifts into the sky and above the scraggly trees; well, I call them scraggly she calls them beloved © Meisaan Chan  

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Patch of sky

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  When my little patch of sky is the only thing I see many times it’s because I’m only looking down   © Meisaan Chan   (photo credit: Twisted Sifter)

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