Silence...a rare commodity in this day and age. Anais Nin said that "we don't see things as they are; we see them as WE are."  Jung added to this that "our vision becomes clear only when we look into our hearts...who looks inside, awakens. "Ghandi wrote: "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness."

I find the greatest clarity when I can stop DOing and SAYing, and just focus on BEing. I can see more of the illusions of my life for what they are.  Realizing that I am part of the flow of life in the universe, an integrated molecule of the Whole, and that the Whole will bring all that I need flowing back to me, it then becomes much easier to let go and release all that which no longer serves in my life.

When I can throw myself with utter abandon onto the breath of God/dess to be borne aloft, I feel so much more secure than when my feet are planted firmly on the ground.  I stop judging myself, and experience the Divine as Love, not as judgment. I can appreciate, at least between God/dess and myself, the beauty of me.

I find it feels good to stop trying so hard to hold onto things which I no longer need to carry....and as I revel in the lightness of my arms, I sometimes quite suddenly find that they are filled with some unexpected and quite amazing gift of grace.

God/dess must laugh benevolently at me when I sputter and exclaim, aghast, "But I didn't WANT a gift of grace!  Wait! There must be some mistake...".  Eventually I stop struggling and, like an exhausted child, nestle in to the Love of S/He Who Is...and the magic of grace begins to work, transforming me from the inside out.  I release still more, and still more...and feel more complete as I let go.  The words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery come to mind: "In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." (from Wind, Sand and Stars).