Tag Archives: struggle

The choice

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

No one can make you resilient; you must do it yourself © Meisaan Chan

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The darkness is easy to dispel, says the Lord

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

The darkness is easy to dispel, says the Lord: one little light and it is gone – but the shadows! The shadows! © Meisaan Chan

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Tend to the health of your roots

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

for no matter what you build they cover all © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Compassion is a muscle

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Compassion is a muscle: the more you use it the stronger it gets the less you use it the more it atrophies © Meisaan Chan

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Always and forever

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

No one said the path would become this foreign and yet still, you go before me © Meisaan Chan (Photo Credit: National Geographic)

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One sign of the sacred path

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

is when loving someone goes from a response to a choice © Meisaan Chan

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Motivation

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

They emerge: worms in the rain gasping for air breaking through barriers only when suffocating nevertheless: still breaking through © Meisaan Chan

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Wrestle with me, says the Lord

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Wrestle with me, says the Lord come into the ring show me your best moves take it out on me © Meisaan Chan

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First, the work of abandon

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

First, the work of abandon then, the gentle repose, as it should be – for the act of struggling is its own burden for the act of trusting is its own delight © Meisaan Chan

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Trying so hard to make things happen

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Pushing at left hind leg of elephant: futile struggle, no movement © Meisaan Chan

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