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grace

18 Jul 2026 - 18 Jul 2026
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    • What does this actually mean? Something like effortless action, a way of doing things that is in harmony with the Tao, basically.
    • But there's also the sense of gifted or graced, and an implied inequality, a hierarchy. It's unfair. Which, OK, life is unfair and grants gifts and curses basically at random.
    • Grace is very closely related to Nobility and in some sense may just be another word for it. Same thing, slightly different view or cross-section. Or they are aspects of each other. Co-dependencies.
        • Nobility is the aspiration to manifest glory for the benefit of others. Nobility is using whatever abilities we have in service of others. Nobility is seeking to fulfill our in-born human potential, and to develop all our in-born human qualities.
        • Grace is a way of acting towards others, a certain way of being, I can't put a finger on it. Politeness is a set of rules but grace involves something more, an enactment of co-recognition or something like that.
    • The aesthetic aspect, graceful as a dancer. What lies behind it.
    • Burrough's Do Easy as a practical way to achieve grace.
    • I suppose like many virtues you can understand it by thinking of Donald Trump as the epitome of its lack.