Internationally renowned writer, poet and translator, member of the Chinese Writers Association. The only female inheritor of UNESCO-listed Dongba Culture, International Disseminator of Dongba Culture and practitioner of Chinese culture's global outreach. Winner of the Italian Francesco Giampietri International Literary Award, President of Lanxin Samei Academy and Dean of Yulong Wenbi Dongba Culture Academy.
Love Yourself
Poem by Lan Xin (Lanxin Samei)
To love yourself
is not selfishness
not self-centeredness
not indulgence
not stubbornness
not loving only yourself
To love yourself
is to know who you are
to know what you want
and what fits you
Hold the rope of fate
with love in your heart
Let your fate
rest firmly in your own hands
Let the kite of your destiny
fly along the path of your heart
To love yourself
is to love others better
and love the world more deeply
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You Are the Light
Poem by Lan Xin（Lanxin Samei）
The world we live in
Some are born with a silver spoon
Some take root in the soil
Though the grounds of growth differ vastly
Birth is never the true start of life
The real beginning
Lies in the awakening of the heart, the understanding of the soul
After weathering storms and trials
Comes the wisdom forged, the self shaped
What kind of person you become
Determines what kind of life you'll have
If you grow in the soil
Cherish the grace of heaven and earth that nourishes you
If you are tempered in bitter waters
Grateful for the profound intentions of fate
If you walk out of the mountains
Live up to the earnest hopes the mountains place in you
All hardships
All trials and tribulations
Will eventually turn into resilient wings
Lifting you to strive upward, walk in the light
Urging you to spread your wings and soar, up to the nine heavens
When you stand high and look far, your heart holds all rivers and mountains
You will finally grasp the wisdom of life
All encounters and hardships in the world
Are gifts of time, all the best arrangements
You turn your heart to the warm sun, for you are the light
Hold lofty aspirations in your chest, and the light leads you far
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Awaken
Poem by Lan Xin（Lanxin Samei）
No one wants
to face hard times and troubles
But human weaknesses
often make us careless and overconfident
forgetting our limits, filled with pride
So life
uses difficult moments
to wake us up, remind us, push us, and shock us
so we can see ourselves clearly
and see the world as it is
Not appreciating the good things we have
is a common human flaw
Sometimes life will take away
precious people, things, love, and chances on purpose
Those who don’t value what they have
lose it forever
and can never get it back
But a few rare people
wake up after deep reflection
When what was lost is found again
iis is a great and unexpected gift
a gentle reward from life for those who learn to think
iiis teaches us to cherish what we have after we lose it
All the bad things that happen in life
are life’s way of gently telling us
to wake up sooner
If you can wake up by learning from your mistakes
you turn bad luck into good, and gain more than you lose
If you can wake up by being aware
the wisdom you find
will help you for your whole life
Truly
no amount of money can buy your awakening
All the lessons we learn
are meant to make us wake up
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