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It makes you sense so clearly that things in themselves don't count. What we call 'things in themselves' are of no true importance! What really counts is the relationship of consciousness to these things. And there's a formidable power in this, since in one instance you touch something and drop or mishandle it, while in the other it's so lovely, it works so smoothly. Even the most difficult movements are made without difficulty. It's an unheard-of power! We don't give it importance because it has no grandiose effects, it's not spectacular. Yes, there are indeed states of grace when one is in the presence of a great difficulty and suddenly has all the power needed to face it—yes, but that's something else. I am speaking of a power active in ordinary life. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p64</ref>
As soon as you are in contact with It, there is not a second in time, not a point in space, which does not show you _dazzlingly_ ''dazzlingly'' this perpetual work of the Grace, this constant intervention of the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/1-august-1956#p50</ref>
The best meditations are those that one has all of a sudden, because they take possession of you as an imperative necessity. You have no choice but to concentrate, to meditate, to look beyond the appearances. And it is not necessarily in the solitude of the forest that it seizes you, it happens when something in you is ready, when the time has come, when the true need is there, when the Grace is with you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/miscellany#p20</ref>