Tag Archives: surrender

The nature of anxiety and courage

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Anxiety stunts you Courage makes you grow © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged abandonment, anxiety, contemplation, courage, depression, meditation, psychology, ruts, surrender | Leave a comment

If you wear armor

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

If you wear armor and say that you trust me, you are first trusting your armor! Be naked, being naked and then you will see © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged anxiety, armor, help, help me, nakedness, protection, surrender, trust | Leave a comment

Loving when you don’t want to love

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Loving when you don’t want to love is the work of heroes © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged abandon, friendship, fulfillment, help, help me, love, price, relationship, surrender | Leave a comment

Monarch migration

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Tiny, fragile butterfly submitting to the wind unthinkable journey © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged adventure, Butterfly, courage, journey, migration, strength, submission, surrender | Leave a comment

The Phoenix of the Lord

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Let the Lord take you and take all so that nothing of you remains – let the ego be burned away until you are ash waiting to rise © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged ego, egoless, humility, poverty of spirit, surrender, totality | Leave a comment

Surrendering strength

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Love is the only thing you can surrender to and still get stronger © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged annihilation, courage, love, purification, strength, surrender, weakness | Leave a comment

On Aging

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

I the worst thing is to cling to yourself, refusing impermanence, only to watch yourself slip away II The best thing is to accept that you are slipping away and will return to the myriad things III Within the acceptance, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged aging, fear, growing older, impermanence, surrender, the return | Leave a comment

Don’t worry about it, says the Lord

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Don’t worry about it, says the Lord everything within you says “grasp” everything I say to you says “release”: To whom do you listen? To whom do you turn? © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged anxiety, comfort, follow, follower, listen, surrender, trust | Leave a comment

Sometimes wisdom says things you don’t want to hear

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes wisdom says things you don’t want to hear: This can be one sign it truly is wisdom, for the human mind loves to agree with itself © Meisaan Chan

Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged advice, enlightenment, listening, resistance, self-deception, submission, surrender, wisdom | Leave a comment

All walls

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged holiness, prayer, surrender, vulnerability, walls, weakness | Leave a comment