Tag Archives: resurrection

When all the choices are hard ones

When all the choices are hard ones you must decide which parts of you will die: Remember that some parts will more readily come back to life than others © Meisaan Chan

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The ever-present decision

If you seek to surpass the self, you must die. This is the only path. Many try to discover another path only to find themselves on this very path with this very decision, again, before them © Meisaan Chan

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Overturning compassion

Does compassion always soothe? No. Sometimes it overturns. © Meisaan Chan

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Do not discard dreams that die

Do not discard dreams that die return them to earth for they keep the soil fertile for new seeds © Meisaan Chan

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Compassion, death and life

You have died for compassion now you’re living for compassion © Meisaan Chan

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But first, we must have the courage to die

How well we make our misery! How ardently you try to teach us new ways! © Meisaan Chan

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Just to be with you

Sometimes I need to risk to be with you sometimes I need to lose to be with you sometimes I need to die to be with you and all is well all is well all is well just to be … Continue reading

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Understandable refusal

Those who reject death are those who reject transformation are those who reject enlightenment © Meisaan Chan

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Blessed are the followers

who know that church is not a social club or a place to preen and be honored, but that it is a place of discomfort, to die and die and die, and then these people do © Meisaan Chan

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