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Where is the hope for mankind if there is no Grace, only karma? If it took so many ages to collect the karmic burden we now carry, then it will take a similar period to disengage from it--the forbidding task will continue throughout every reincarnation until the man dies again and again--unless the individual collector, the ego, is no longer here to claim it. But to cancel its own existence is impossible by its own efforts, yet possible by its non-effort, its surrender, its letting in the Higher Power, by no longer claiming its personal identity. The coming in, when actualized, is Grace for it is not his doing.

-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life > Chapter 5 : Grace > # 94