Anne Morrow Lindbergh - "the Gift from the Sea"
I want 1st of all... to be of peace with myself. i want a singleness of eye, the purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities so well as i can, i want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. i am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. by grace i mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony. i am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in prayer from the Phaedons when he said, "may the outward and inward man be one." i would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which i would function and give as i was meant to in the eyes of God.
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