Dhanya Vad

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge or reason.
-Pope Francis (Brainy Quotes)

Grace


Grace is not something you go looking for.  It is something you already are.  It is not something knowledge or reason provides...it exists beyond the limitations of mind, action and speech.

You are already whole, complete and perfect.  Do you believe that?  Most of us don't...so we spend vast amounts of energy and clock-time  looking out there for this something that is in here.

We already Have It; We already Are It

We strive to 'know' what grace is and where it can be found...instead of simply getting out of our own ways and letting Grace shine from where it has always been. It is not about us and what we think and do. We don't do life, Life does us.  We do not breathe...we are breathed. We don't become, we are. How come we have such a hard time getting that?

Jon Kabat-Zinn , a wise mindfulness teacher and founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction reminds want -to-be mindfulness teachers that there is no "there".  There is just here and now and if we really want to find grace and all the happiness we tend to externally strive for, we just need to get out of our own ways. It is all about letting .
"Let the beauty that is us interconnect with the beauty that is the whole world."

It is not about doing, it is simply about being what we already are.  The Buddhist heart sutras also reminds of this:
No place to go, nothing to do, nothing to attain.

We already are, we already have what we are looking for.  We just keep forgetting that. We need to remember. To remember is merely to restore to your mind what is already there. (ACIM; T:10:II:3:1)

Gratitude

One simple way of getting there is through the practice of gratitude. Gratitude, according to Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey, in their 21 day meditation series entitled Manifesting Grace through Gratitude, shifts attention from our automatic and problematic tendency to resist Life to accepting everything the present moment has to offer. When we can learn to embrace all we are given we will find happiness, we will find the peace we long for, we will find Grace. When I am grateful, I find my grace.

We do not need to strive to attain; we do not need to do; we do not need to know anything conceptually to experience grace...we just need to be willing to sit and experience Life in the present moment, regardless of what is happening in us or around us. And be grateful for it.  It is that simple.

All is well in my world!

References

ACIM (2007) A Course in Miracles: combined Volume. Text. Mill Valley: Foundations for Inner Peace

Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey(2019) Day 1: The Path to Grace Begins Today, from The 21 day Manifesting Grace through Gratitude  series. Chopra Center Meditation. com

Jon Kabat-Zinn (2018) The Art Of Teaching Mindfulness. Wisdom 2.0. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEGcTTLMDow