We walk a Path, we engage a life Practice, we Pray and, somewhere, someday, the pain is gone, peace shines within, and without everywhere.

Recently, awareness of a forgotten sadness has arisen in the Quiet. For many years, I lived with a backdrop of sadness, a pervasive sadness seen and felt most clearly in silence, alone, lurking mutely while awake and asleep. Lately, suddenly, it appeared to me that the sadness was not present anymore, was gone. How? Life takes care of Herself. We walk a Path, we engage a life Practice, we Pray and, somewhere, someday, the pain is gone, peace shines within, and without everywhere. A Rose blooms in the desert, sands flow with living Waters. In an odd way, we do not get rid of sadness, and we do not get peace - as I have often written, we receive - but this does not mean consciously receive. There is a Work going on under the details of our lives, our stories that we took too seriously. Peace and Bliss are always present, and we come, through fidelity to Life Herself, to be present to Peace and Bliss. We are Home. Life is not what we had wanted, but we see Life, and we no longer want a life we want, for we are in Oneness with Life. Life, nothing more, nothing less, heals us. Our expectations lessen, and Joy arises. We no longer seek peace, we know peace. We no longer seek Love, we are Love. Grace is no longer merely a quality or idea, but a Presence, the Presence, our Presence.