My dear friends, do you with your acts of favoritism really trust in our Lord Jesus Christ? For if someone arrives in your gathering wearing gold rings and fine clothing, and if a poor person in unclean clothes likewise enters, and if you notice the one wearing fine clothing, saying, "Sit here, please," and to the one poor, "Stand there" or "Sit at my feet," have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

*James 2.1-4, Christian Scriptures

In their travels Rabbis Zusya and Elimelekh often visited a city called Ludbar. They would sleep in the dwelling of a poor, devout man. Years later, after the Rabbis became famous, they visited the city, not on foot as before, but in a carriage. The wealthiest man in the little town, who had nothing to do with them prior and, this time, having heard of their arrival, rushed to invite them to stay in his home. They replied, "Nothing has changed in us to lead you to respect us more than before. What is new is only the horses and carriage. Take them for your guests, we will lodge, as usual, in the house of our old host, as before."

In the silence of Contemplation, resting in Grace, there comes forth the realization and beauty of Oneness. Yet, if we do not realize this in our daily lives, and more than on an intellectual level, what gain for us? for everyone? Still, the arising of Love, demanding our "Yes," quietly melts away even our hidden prejudices. Many of these prejudices are socially sanctioned. More easy to see are the socially-condemned prejudices. Grace transforms even the subtlest of prejudices in the Light of Itself, Its Love. Yet, again, there is no such inner change without "Yes." Yet, spiritual Contemplation is truly our "Yes" to surrender unto Grace that we cannot see and all we cannot heal of our own selves. The mind itself cannot reach into these hidden distinctions, the seeing must arise from before and outside all distinctions, even as Grace is free of distinction. Only that without distinction can see without distinction, so by Grace seeing becomes graceful, or the very seeing of Grace by Grace Itself, even as only Love loves.