“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 said [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Grace’
One Step At A Time
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, tagged Grace, Harmony, Inspire, Peace, Well Being on February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Letting Life Be
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Autumn, Faith, Grace, Inspire, Surrender, Trust on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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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 right and appropriate that they cannot [...]
Tranquility
Posted in Field Center, Florence Scovel Shinn, Inspiration, Life, Spirituality, tagged Acceptance, Grace on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 wrote, I am under [...]
The Hero’s Path
Posted in Inspiration, Joseph Campbell, Life, Spirituality, tagged Grace, Poignant on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“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, [...]
Grace
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Florence Scovel Shinn, Inspiration, Spirituality, tagged Grace on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot lose
anything that
belongs to me by
Divine Right.
I am under
grace and not
under law.
~Florence Scovel Shinn
A State of Grace
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Field Center, Seth, Spirituality, tagged Grace on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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.
You cannot fall out of [...]
Gifts
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Inspiration, Law of Attraction, Life, Spirituality, tagged Grace, Possibilities, Random Thoughts, Universe on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 eternally unfolding nature
of all [...]
Faith is Visionary Re-visited
Posted in A Course in Miracles, Abraham Hicks, Field Center, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Marianne Williamson, Spirituality, tagged Faith, Grace, Trust, Universe on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a re-post from last year. The message is just so darn good and is so much about dropping the oars, flowing downstream, trusting in absolute grace and letting go…
We can let our lives be directed
by the same force that makes
flowers grow. {…}
To trust in the force
that moves the universe
is faith.
Faith isn’t blind it’s [...]