“How do you know which of your intentions is likely to be fulfilled? The answer lies in paying attention to the clues provided by the nonlocal mind. Notice the coincidences in your life. Coincidences are messages. They are clues from God or spirit or nonlocal reality, urging you to break out of your karmic conditioning, your familiar patterns of thinking. They are offering you an opportunity to enter a domain of awareness where you feel loved and cared for by the infinite intelligence that is your source. Spiritual traditions call this the state of grace." ~Deepak ChopraI've heard coincidence defined as God's way of remaining anonymous. I've come to see coincidence as grace in action ... something we learn to recognize over time through experience ... and pass on (or not).
GRACE
The beauty of grace
is that you receive blessings
for no reason.
As above, so below.
PRACTICE random acts of grace.
Give to others for no reason.
Offer kindness to those who are undeserving,
love those who no one else loves.
Practice grace.
Daniel Levin, Zen Cards
The beauty of grace
is that you receive blessings
for no reason.
As above, so below.
PRACTICE random acts of grace.
Give to others for no reason.
Offer kindness to those who are undeserving,
love those who no one else loves.
Practice grace.
Daniel Levin, Zen Cards
These days ... I realize how much better my daily life becomes when I pray ... "not my will, but thine, be done" ... simple, but not always easy.
"Slow down
and everything you are chasing
will come around and catch you."
~John De Paola
5 comments:
Those are quite lovely quotations. I frequently wonder about coincidences that seem much less like coincidences and more like things that were meant to be. I try to balance that with the knowledge that we all have free will and can shape our own destinies. I just don't know how much we can shape them.
I'm happy you found them so, Liz. Thanks for stopping by and adding your perspective. You raise an excellent point. Free will in the face of coincidence may be one of those intriguing paradoxes in life ;-)
In my experience, we may not have as much control as we'd like over happens to us (or anyone else actually), but the choice we DO possess in any instance is how to respond to what happens ... and to me, choosing becomes a functional definition of "free will".
Perhaps we can be "right" or "happy" ... but not necessarily both simultaneously?
Lucy
Guess we're on similar wave lengths since we' both posted about "Grace". I'm still trying to figure out how you create links from my sites to yours. 'Tis a puzzlement :)
Hugs,
Definitely not always easy, but an absolute truth about how the Universe works.
Lucy -- puzzlement solved at last :-]
...(though I'm feeling just a little dense now that I've figured out I was creating and leaving links all around, totally unaware I was doing so. Such is life!
Kikipotamus
If it was easy there would be no challenge ... and life might be dull. ; >]
Hugs and blessings to you both,
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