Grace is not a thing to come to you.
It is ever showering on you.
You have only to be conscious of it.
May God grant you this faith and this consciousness.

- Swami Ramdas, The Essential Swami Ramdas (Library of Perennial Philosophy)

God brings about occasions for turning its course towards Himself.
Thereafter God takes up such a life and guides and controls it
according to His supreme will, which works always for good.”

- Swami Ramdas
The Essential Swami Ramdas (Library of Perennial Philosophy)

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton

10.03.08 The Avowal

THE AVOWAL

As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirit's deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.
-Denise Levertov

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