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Holding you and your family — and of course, your mother — in my heart and prayers, Jack. I am with you in your sorrow and letting go. Big blessings.
Beautiful way of putting it, Aida. Thank you. In my experience, it seems that quietude has a passivity in it, whereas resting in silence, there is an alertness — A coming to meet.
and i would add that silence is the prerequisite of this state of relaxed balance, and the ground of it, if it is to go below the layer of discursive thought to the place where Spirit can express through our actions, rather than the limited or self-serving visions of our small self.
1. The author describes the Magician as representing concentration without effort, work turned into play, the yoke that is easy and the burden that is light. Where does grace fit in to this?
This feels very related to Sahaja Samadhi (for those unfamiliar, a natural state of spontaneous effortlessness, considered a high form of realization in many yoga traditions, that trusts the flow of the moment.)
I think of the playful surrender of St Francis to grace, which led him to trust a spontaneous flow. In one story, he was with a small group and they rotated leadership as they walked, taking turns on who would decide where to turn at a crossroads. When it was one nervous friar’s turn to decide, he said to Francis that he didn’t know how to choose. Francis spun him until he was dizzy and fell to the ground. They went in the direction that he fell and their time in the next town was full of magic.
Practically, in the case of the Magician, it seems to have something to do with entering into a relaxed, balance state of trust and flow so that wisdom and wise action can come through us (ie. grace), instead of us contriving it.
