Nature & Grace

I chose grace and my mate nature...no wonder we have an "interesting" relationship. Yin yang gotta love it!!!

Hi strangela!

So glad to hear you have a complementary relationship. Ying/Yang indeed. The terms nature and grace are but another manifestation of duality. This quote was from the beginning of that movie 'Tree of Life' and it resonated with me so much that I made a thread about it, lol.



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Thanks for the thread BOWMAN!!!

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how could a nun imagine the right answer to ask the right question ?

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those nuns have issues

Me?

I done got flung off the teeter totter.




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Thread: Do you choose the world of Man or the Kingdom of God Here on earth?

and that is why
the closer they are to the archetype the harder it is for them to "see"

Last Edited by aether on 10/24/2011 01:22 PM

Looking back I see where in my own life I've demonstrated both characteristics as I'm sure most people could do too. These last few years though have been some pretty intense situations where I've learned what Grace really is all about.




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Yeah, they (the nuns) paint 'Nature' as being 'the bad guy' in that quote. I see what you mean aether. I think a better way to state it would be to let your inner Grace lead your inner Nature. Because like I said, afterall is said and done we are both Nature and Grace, within each one of us.

That's something I've sensed that you do very well aether.


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Sounds like you have been learning to embrace your shadow. It is something we must all do in order to develop awareness, humility and grace and step by step transcend our body conscious egos.

Forgot the link to short introduction to the Shadow:-
[link to home.earthlink.net]

From the link...


When we can accept these feelings and own them, we are able to love the ego as an innocent child. Then, without punishment or reward- both which fuel the ego, we can be at peace with the knowledge that these thoughts are only such, and we can remember that we are still in truth, Divine love at the core.




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Good quote, OP.
My interpretation of the yin/yang is just that, a balance between the left and the right. What's happened with the two-party political system that exists in America is that the yin and yang has been rotated 90 degrees, making it right versus left, with both right and left feeding into the same system. Now there is a need for a shift back to more balance.

"From my experience it is difficult to find an accurate balance between GRACE and TRUTH. How can we (those who embrace a relationship with Jesus) be full of grace and truth as Jesus was? Grace and truth can appear so contrary, and so, often, people end up being full of only GRACE or only TRUTH. My opinion is that being full of grace only, leads to an amoral culture where everything goes (seem familiar). Whilst being full of truth only, leads to a fundamentalist culture where no-one can think for themselves (also sadly familiar). How can we be full of grace and truth as Jesus was?

This is where I find yin yang to be a helpful example. We need to see grace and truth not as opposing actions but as interconnected qualities that give rise to, and strengthen, each other. The more truth we know, the more grace we show, and so on and so forth. I believe there is less purely black and white in a life of relationship with Jesus than is often believed and I believe there is more that is absolute than the other side believes. In the midst of this yin yang is the complete fullness of Jesus who totally combines all of GRACE and TRUTH to bring glory to God.

In future when I look at a yin yang symbol I am going to be reminded that Jesus is in everything and that I need to seek his TRUTH and his GRACE in order to live a balanced life."

[link to alutacontinua.wordpress.com]


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HI my frined
i can show you my (another language translation of reality) view:

isnt grace the ammount of understanding you are willing to give to ANY subject ?

you know this transcription of reality trough limiting (cutted) words in limmited languages, is again and again stopping me to express myself clearly

you know i started painting to ventilate this other half and see if i can read in it
(the missing part are my souls desires)
[link to i290.photobucket.com]

i found it/her, it is a cascade of our deepest realizations (in short ammount of time-life)
all precisely timed in proportion to outer world happenings,
as if all what we experience was taken into account

this grace you talk today is a point in your lifetime
(where you got the balls to got out with it)
and with every "checkpoint of this sort" we "shift"

nice ride buddy, i am glad there exist a brain who can understands me :D LOL

Good morning Funney. Language has failed me constantly throughout my life. Been reading a few 'religious' threads lately just to get a feel for how language is such a barrier when those who attempt to expresss a point tend to end up in conflict with one another. And, you know, people tend to look for catch phrases, icons, and 'brand names' that they can relate to their own knowledge and experiences.

Within each one of us though, I believe their is a 'language of the heart' and I think that as those feelings that emenate from the heart get filter through our dualistic brains, that's when the restrictions in communication occur that causes all of the confusion. If there were a way that communication could occur that could bypass the brain 'filter', than we would be home.

Nice graphic there Funney.




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I work on that daily my friend. For we all need,

"Eyes to See and Ears to Hear"



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Wow...Love your view there Funney.
And your ability to express it.

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I like this one... :)

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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