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Tag Archives: silence
Leadership
You can follow your thoughtsor your thoughts can follow you © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Food addiction, meditation, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged Buddhism, consciousness, ego, help, help me, silence, stillness, thoughts
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The prayer of thwarted desires
Interrupted monastery night:First, teens on street wake me up three timesbut worse, my bed,poor and neglected – good for monks but not for funky backsI move to couch, not great but better, at least so I could complete the night.Ah, … Continue reading
Posted in Food addiction, meditation, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged brokenness, holiness, imperfection, meditation, retreat, silence
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To find silence within the muscles
To find silence within the muscles requires first that you acknowledge the noise within the muscles and that you listen to them, to it and then, being acknowledged, little by little they still: To find silence within the muscles © … Continue reading
Posted in Food addiction, meditation, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged bodywork, busyness, contemplation, emptiness, meditation, peace, silence
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Divine cycle
From the silence, words and from the words, silence © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, meditation, silence, union, words
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The emergence of the soul
Silence draws the soul to sit on the outside © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, meditation, prayer, silence, soul, spirit, stillness
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Thin veil for silence
Morning train rushes to stillness, the noise a thin veil for silence © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged centering, centering prayer, contemplation, meditation, noise, silence
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Tend to me
Sometimes just sitting can be a challenge you know my ways, O Lord; tend to me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, distraction, help, help me, meditation, silence, stillness
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My neighbors’ shouting woke me up last night
My neighbors’ shouting woke me up last night and so, awake, I stumbled to the bathroom, and upon my return, I was struck by the frame of moonlight-drenched carpet – my window, achingly luminous and through it, there she was, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged beauty, calm, luminosity, luminous, moon, moonlight, noise, peace, silence, union
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