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Work and prayer
Work and prayer can be the same thing but not always Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged balance, prayer, search, wholeness, work
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I travel the world looking for my love
I travel the world looking for my love;in airports, on the streets of VeniceI constantly refresh my browser, aching for just a glimpse of your face, aching for the ways you bend delight into the curvature of my heartand how … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Feminine God, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual search, Uncategorized
Tagged blindness, desire, journey, love, search, sight, Spiritual search, wander
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The end of religion
Blessed is the one who can hold religion lightly in the hands: its depths are but the gateway into mystery, and at its end the mystery continues and continues infinitely © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged eternity, infinity, mystery, mysticism, religion, search, searching, spirituality
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I never disappear, says the Lord
I never disappear, says the Lord so if you don’t find me on the surface find me in the depths © Meisaan Chan
Posted in God speaks poetry, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged depths, eternity, food, infinity, looking, loss, nourishment, search, surface
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What are you looking for?
What are you looking for? Look at you as you look: be aware of what you truly seek © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged completion, emptiness, fullness, looking, search, searching
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The undiscerning moment
Without food or touch the spirit falls to sleep, hibernating until more favorable conditions appear – if these don’t come, the spirit can sleep forever but the slightest scent arouses voracious hunger; this is the most precarious time, for it … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged addiction, food, hunger, instinct, search, strength, weakness, wisdom
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In search of fullness
I look for you along the empty streets – they’re actually chaotic streets, but somehow empty – and I’m looking to be filled © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged ache, emptiness, fullness, help me, hunger, looking, search
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Forgetting all, to follow
As the train barrels through the emptiness I peer at all the passengers, looking for the face of my Beloved, bent over a phone or behind a newspaper No: but the far door closes to the scent of jasmine and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, journey, Rumi, search, train, travel
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A letter to Rumi
Across the oceans and great rifts of time we wander the streets for the Beloved calling His name until our throats are parched calling until He allows Himself to be found – then we twirl with intoxicated joy and delight … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged darkness, desire, ecstasy, everything, infinity, light, nothingness, search
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Gather your nets
Gather your nets to catch the Lord – but I assure you, they can never be big enough © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Feminine God, Photo poem, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged boat, catch, fishing, journey, nets, search, seeking, writing
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