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Tag Archives: spiritual exercises
Stabilizing and strengthening your weakest parts
To stabilize weak body muscles,strengthen surrounding body muscleswhile strengthening the weak To stabilize weak spiritual muscles,strengthen surrounding spiritual muscleswhile strengthening the weak Everything is in the systemand that within thatand that within that © Meisaan Chan
Posted in healing, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, spirituality, Trauma, writing
Tagged adventure, contemplation, healing, help, help me, love, meditation, spiritual exercises, surrender, trust
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What will lead you
For at this moment, you know in your essence that you are not alonethe essence of you returns to the essence of mereturns to the essence of everywherereturns to omnipresenceyou are saturated with presence, dear onereturn to truthyour anxiety will … Continue reading
Posted in healing, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, spirituality, writing
Tagged anxiety, contemplation, depression, help, help me, journey, loneliness, love, meditation, peace, presence, Spiritual direction, spiritual exercises, spiritual growth, surrender, trust
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The spirituality of weeding
No gardener has ever said, “I weeded really well today, so now they’re gone forever.” © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged earth spirituality, spiritual exercises, spirituality
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Strength and fragility
All people carry strength and fragility, which many hold in disproportion: To abjure your strength is to dwell in false smallness. To abjure your weakness is to dwell in delusions of self-God. Both are false. Blessed are they who claim … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged compassion, ego, fragility, humanity, spiritual exercises, spiritual strength, strength, weakness
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Temptations
Temptations come from every corner, pulling you this way and that; if you succumb too many times your feet will veer off the path © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged agenda, direction, discernment, internal strength, lost, spiritual exercises, Temptations
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Getting beyond the self
Spend a week contemplating infinity; return to this when God seems small © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anchor, balance, contemplation, eternity, grounding, guidance, infinity, meditation, spiritual exercises, writing
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Training your thoughts
Well-behaved children do not just happen: if they sit still in chairs and say please and thank you and ask permission – that reflects years of training in all the little moments: for the most important moments are the daily, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged contemplation, discipline, exercises, meditation, spiritual exercises
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Exercises (3 of 3)
At the end of this day I give thanks for your awesome, constant presence and scour the hours for ways in which I could have loved you more. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged contemplation, meditation, spiritual exercises
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Exercises (2 of 3)
In the middle of this day I pause: and remember what I am and certainly what I am not. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged contemplation, meditation, spiritual exercises
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Exercises (1 of 3)
Before I start this day I shed my clothes: I am nothing and all effort is empty and all dreams are in vain without you. Be with me, then, and give me meaning and purpose – be for me that … Continue reading