Grace is Your Life

Your body and your life are filled with grace. I would even go so far as to say they are pure grace. Many people are not aware of this truth. They struggle and search and pray and beg to feel and to know grace. All the while, the same grace they are searching for, is the very thing that holds their form together and is the very essence of their being.


People who report having transcendent experiences almost always affirm having a sense of peace and familiarity about the episode. The deep stillness they sense is described as being something they have known all along, not as something new or strange or foreign. It feels like coming home.


At first, on the spiritual path, we may be enamored with strange perceptions during meditation, such as radiant lights or perceptions of astral landscapes, or feelings of bliss and ecstasy. We may long for visions of Gods, Goddesses, Angels, or Ascended masters. Our imagination will provide them of course, but in reality, this is entertainment no different than what you get at the movies or on your computer. Anything that you can perceive, is “out there”, and we want you to be “in here” existing freely as your Self. We want you know what you are, rather than searching for interesting phenomena.


As a person goes through the stages of spiritual awakening, it becomes more and more ordinary. Gone are the desires to seek a sense of completion or fulfillment through something external. If it is appropriate, a tranquil spiritually aware person can sit for long periods of time, simply being. To someone hypnotized by the mind and addicted to sense stimulation, this seems outrageously ludicrous. Isn’t the act of spiritual awakening meant to lift you out of the human condition and into a divine condition? Yes it is, but the divine condition is not a glorified human condition, as our minds would like to believe.


Spend some time in nature. Watch the wind blowing through the trees as they sway back and forth, or how the wind rolls over the long grass of late summer. See how the sun and moon cross the sky, and the stars shine as if eternally fixated in the heavens. Nature can show the consistent tranquility of simply being.


See how there is no clinging to the past or expectation of the future in nature. When the rose blooms, it is beautiful. Its scent fills the air. As the season passes, it fades, and dies. There is no argument. The Spring will come again. Even if it doesn’t for this particular rose bush, it will for some other plant. There is no need to worry about which plant. It does not matter what names or forms are given to the rising and falling waves on the ocean of consciousness, because it is all the same ocean.