This energy is INFINITE
Even though we cannot really conceive of this, it is this way
This energy is made of movement and substance
When there is matter
Even tho change is constant and uniform
There are concentrations and there are vaccuums
The Ways this energy manifests itself are with huge areas of nothing
There are an uncountable number of stars
Within the life of a planet there is an uncountable number of beings
Me, as my unique self, cannot be born again, but there will always be others
Always
and Everywhere.
I can be assured there will always be rebirth.
Being with the harmonious flowing of the unfolding.
If i want to BE with grace, i must be balanced.
If i try to be graceful, i will do something that i can judge as not being graceful
If i remain balanced, all i do will be graceful.
If i wish to not fight against the unfolding, and, rather, flow with it...
...I accept that it is happening
...I maintain balance
Are you a human Being or a human Doing?
or possibly a human Dancing?
Way to go....
Poor Grace, she has no mind.
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
ted's translation of the
Tao Te Ching
The Way
There is ENERGY
These are uniform
These make Matter
Without matter, there is no Time
there is time
there is change
Change
brings differentiation
There are expansions and there are contractions
There is slowing down and speeding up
One of these qualities cannot exist without the other
This
change, this unfolding, is the way of energy
It also
shows itself with interstellar gasses and stars and black holes and planets
and everything we have on our planet.
The Universe
cannot be measured
There are uncountable planets around those stars
A very small percentage of them can support life
These ones that can are also uncountable
There are billions of beings on each planet at any given moment
The delemma
of being is not that it will end
It's that it won't end
When we've been here ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing our praise
Than when we've first begun.
The problem is not 'dieing'
The problem is 'not living'
Grace
is the way, the unfolding, the Tao
"We are here by the grace of god"
Grace can also be described as the harmonious flowing with the unfolding or
I can't be out of balance and be graceful, now can i?
(That was pretty Tao Te Ching-like, wasn't it?)
To always be ready to accept what is happening, I offer acceptance
I can remain balanced by not being extreme,
by being patient,
by remaining centered
Balance brings me to Being with Grace
Offering acceptance lets me remain with Grace.
I do not think of being as a constant state, but as an unfolding, like movement in one place.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
she was never born, she'll never die
because she is infinite, i can't really conceive of her
and, yet, i love her
precious Grace
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
May you be with Grace
I've gotta go Be