! ! S E L F' ' S G R A C E

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 to life ourselves..) and then, the grace which flows through the good fortune to find (or does he or she find us?) a teacher who may steer our course through life, through teachings, and through the understanding which we bring; and third and last – and most mysterious, most powerful, most firmly set; and most of all, which all our living life partakes of: grace of self. But what is that? So darkly set by our past thoughts, and words, and acts; so darkly, lightly, made each moment’s presence by our present life; and which, darkly again, must influence our future life in ways or even in our future bodies, if such teachings as the Hindus hold may energize our ways… Can we, should we, attempt a gratitude to our mysterious former self – that thus we are, and to our present moment, brought? So should we, in some novel, inner way, dedicate our present self – to… self? Fall silent, still; and in that place beyond all thought, all word, all act, all sense, all seeing, dissolve into ourself; know only, being?