<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>S e l f' ' s g r a c e</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s said that we are graced <br>specifically, in three ways: <br>(though we might add, <br>but what is human life but grace?) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">those three, firstly the divine grace <br>which we may turn to, any time, <br>in the scriptures as set down <br>(which we must bring to life ourselves..) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then, the grace which flows <br>through the good fortune to find <br>(or does he or she find us?) <br>a teacher who may steer our course <br>through life, through teachings, and <br>through the understanding which we bring; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and third and last – and most mysterious, <br>most powerful, most firmly set; <br>and most of all, which all our living life <br>partakes of: grace of self. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what is that? So darkly set <br>by our past thoughts, and words, and acts; <br>so darkly, lightly, made each moment’s presence <br>by our present life; and which, darkly again, <br>must influence our future life in ways <br>or even in our future bodies, if <br>such teachings as the Hindus hold <br>may energize our ways… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can we, should we, attempt a gratitude <br>to our mysterious former self – that thus <br>we are, and to our present moment, brought? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So should we, in some novel, inner way, <br>dedicate our present self – to… self? <br>Fall silent, still; and in that place beyond <br>all thought, all word, all act, all sense, all seeing, <br>dissolve into ourself; know only, being?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459769" data-title="S e l f' ' s g r a c e de Michael Shepherd" data-description="It’s said that we are graced specifically, in three ways: (though we might add, but what is human life but grace?) those three, firstly the divine grace which we may turn to, any time, in the scriptures as set down (which we must bring t..."></div> </div> </div>

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