' Grace '...

Grace is not necessarily bestowed deliberately or conferred personally.

It may be received from someone who does not even know that he is its source.

It may manifest through nothing more than the physical meeting between these two, or through a letter from one to the other, or even through the mere thinking about one of them by the other person.

But, however obtained, Grace has its ultimate source in the mysterious Overself.

This is why no man, however saintly, exalted, or advanced, can really give it to anyone:

he can only be used by the higher power for this purpose,

whether aware or unaware in the surface part of his mind of what is happening.




-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life >
Chapter 5: Grace > # 41 Paul Brunton