Grace sees the differences in the world as integrated parts of one wholeness.
- Deepak Chopra
Dear Wise Women,
Thank-you for journeying within our circles for the past five weeks! Our exploration of “Manifesting Grace Through Gratitude” has been one of the most beautiful experiences of my life! Together, we gained a deeper understanding of the principles of gratitude and grace and, I believe, created a vessel for authentic gratitude to flow and reveal the beauty and mystery of grace in her endless forms.
This week, I would like to review some of the most captivating teachings of our time together. I am going to start by re-reading the Rumi Oracle “Resplendent With Grace”:
Is it difficult to see your magnificence? Without a mirror the size of a galaxy, how could you possibly witness all that you are? You must just catch glimpses of your truth now and then. Oh, if you could see yourself as I see you in all of your glorious fullness of being! You are swathed in robes of grace, so light and freeing that they do not weigh you down, and yet so luscious and full that you cannot help but stir the movement of all of creation as you step this way and that.
Of course it matters not to grace whether you see or do not see, for grace simply is, without witnessing being required. Yet you might live rather differently, my beloved, should you realize you are not only worthy of grace, but are actually dripping with it, saturated with divine presence so rich it leaks out of you and causes sunlight to pool at your holy feet. Oh yes, you are resplendent in holiness and sanctity. Should you come to know this as I do, you would take each step with awe and reverence. You would decide that not a thing in your world could be classed as mundane, and decide, with bold fervour, that you are living in godliness and must create your world through choices that honour love.
You may be wondering if you can attain this next stage of growth in your life. You are already well-equipped to do so, no matter what you might believe about the situation, circumstances, or others involved, even yourself. You have within your soul possession more than enough grace to see you through anything you are bold enough to envision for yourself, or for any vision you feel life has bestowed upon you. So pray, through unconditional love to access all that you are, to be supported by those beings that love you without condition. Pray to realize that you are so drenched in sacred grace that the well of your being is full. All that is needed to nurture you onto the next step of your life path is within you now. How could it be otherwise, for you are one with grace.
- Rumi Oracle: Invitation into the Heart of the Divine by Alanna Fairchild
Gratitude is a two-way flow of appreciation between your thanks and the uplifting response that you feel in return. The flow of gratitude from the heart is received by nature in the same spirit it is given, and it is returned back to us as grace.
- Deepak Chopra
Genuine gratitude comes from a feeling of contentment, safety, and being welcomed in your life.
- Deepak Chopra
Grace is the knowledge that we belong, that we are understood, that we are a meaningful part of something big, deep and powerful.
- Oprah Winfrey
Devotion is entirely about finding love in everything, as a universal quality.
- Deepak Chopra
Loving fearlessly through gratitude is one of the most courageous things a human being can do.
- Oprah Winfrey
There is no step-by-step guide to attaining grace, there is only an opening of the soul. Open the door. Step in.
- Oprah Winfrey
The water moves
from source to ocean
and back again
never following the same path twice.
The constancy we see is an illusion,
a single drop of water washes over a rock
and then moves on
never to visit that rock again.
Beneath it all
the river bed witnesses the flow
erodes, bends, and transforms.
It neither clings to nor resists the current,
but savours the sensation of every
swirling rapid
plummeting waterfall
and gentle trickle
sensing the aliveness of every moment
with joy and curiosity.
- Patti Wardlaw