“The winds of grace are always blowing”, the Indian mystic Ramakrishna said. “But we have to raise our sails”. Through grace we are granted such priceless gifts as self-transcending love, joy and peace as well as those extraordinary capacities that lift us above the commonplace.
With grace, all comes to us as if freely given rather than earned... spontaneously revealed rather than attained.
…George Leonard coined the term Focussed Surrender … he noted that every episode of grace or “perfect rhythm” involved the unlikely marriage of trying and not trying, of zeroing in and letting go. It appeared that both focused intentionality and the surrender of ego were necessary for experiencing existence at such a fundamental level and creating what often appeared miraculous.
It was at the moment of surrender, after intense concentration that grace became manifest.
…If we entertain the notion that the universe somehow already contains all information, all possibilities and that each of us is a context of the universe from a particular point of view, then we might say that to create a sharply focused, vivid image of what we are seeking serves to “tune” our being to that precise possibility.
But that’s not enough, the striving, the ego, still gets in the way.
When we surrender, relinquishing the ego with its limitations, we open the way for grace; news from the universe, a direct connection with the divine.
With grace, all comes to us as if freely given rather than earned... spontaneously revealed rather than attained.
…George Leonard coined the term Focussed Surrender … he noted that every episode of grace or “perfect rhythm” involved the unlikely marriage of trying and not trying, of zeroing in and letting go. It appeared that both focused intentionality and the surrender of ego were necessary for experiencing existence at such a fundamental level and creating what often appeared miraculous.
It was at the moment of surrender, after intense concentration that grace became manifest.
…If we entertain the notion that the universe somehow already contains all information, all possibilities and that each of us is a context of the universe from a particular point of view, then we might say that to create a sharply focused, vivid image of what we are seeking serves to “tune” our being to that precise possibility.
But that’s not enough, the striving, the ego, still gets in the way.
When we surrender, relinquishing the ego with its limitations, we open the way for grace; news from the universe, a direct connection with the divine.
Excerpt from "The Life We Are Given" George Leonard and Micheal Murphy
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