December 25

Can you see God?
Can you speak to God face-to-face with your personal effort?
Impossible.
You need God's infinite Grace in addition to your personal effort.
Without God's Grace, you will but try, like a fool, to stamp with your foot on the shadow cast by your own head.
You are fit to receive God's Grace the moment you feel and realise that your limited personal efforts are also due to His boundless Grace.
Sri Chinmoy, Arise! Awake! Thoughts of a yogi, Frederick Fell, Inc, New York, 1972