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What You Are

Grace is present, because Grace is another name for what you are. ~Mooji~

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At first, I gave thought to posting a poem in honor of Thanksgiving tomorrow.  I approached my book tower that stands in a corner of my bedroom.  It contains about 50 books on poetry and spirituality.  I held my hand out and let it sweep over the books like an energetic wand and let it [...]

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“Pain Is Inevitable. Suffering is Optional.”  (Zen Aphorism) It’s a very famous quote that I’ve heard many, many times but only recently began to get a sense of what I think it really means.  Life happens, stuff happens — this is inevitable and responding with pure, genuine, heart felt pain is what is natural.  Or [...]

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image location It does not astonish or make us angry that it takes a whole year to bring into the house three great white peonies and two pale blue iris.  It seems altogether right and appropriate that these glories are earned with long patience and faith. . . . and also that it is altogether [...]

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You feel as you feel because you believe in a certain fashion. Your feelings follow your conscious beliefs… Seth – Jane Roberts ESP Class – July 30, 1974 So often in the past I have felt that my emotions, my feelings were the potential problem.  It’s as if they existed as some separate entity.  If [...]

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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. ~Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa~ It is such a relief to be reminded that as outer conditions don’t always seem to swing into agreement in the ways I want them to, that there is Grace.  As Florence Scovel Shinn once [...]

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“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.  The labyrinth is thoroughly known.  We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god…Where we had thought to travel outward, [...]

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I cannot lose anything that belongs to me by Divine Right. I am under grace and not under law. ~Florence Scovel Shinn

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You were born into a state of grace. Therefore, it is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. [...]

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The nature of *all* things is continually unfolding. Remember that, Bethie? Ah, I had a moment where I forgot, but now I am getting into the flow of remembering that.  I tried to sneak in a period at the end of that experience. Ha! but I know too much now. And as I recall the [...]

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