Flow and Idealism

Counterpoint to my blog #6- I offer that anything I say I can change my mind if something new that is more accurate flows in. So, 20 minutes after posting #6 I am talking to my friend and she says- I think that perspiration and persistence are a very one-sided way of describing power- what about the power of intention, intuition, and the right thing showing up just because of your desire to create?

If I look at my direct experience over 40 plus years of work, I have dozens of moments when the right person, the right amount of money to pay the rent, the right next connection flowed to me due to what appears to be no sweat on my part.
Grace is a concept that I can say is real- there are many times when not because of my effort an opportunity presents itself just because of ? what? mystery, magic, life force... I really don't know why.

So, power is also not doing. It is very difficult for me as a Western European male from the US to get my head around the notion of Flow but it is apparent that it is as real as that which comes from effort.

Let me try to articulate how this works from my little pea brained perspective:
I feel that it starts with a strong positive emotion like love, compassion, a desire to serve and is followed by that longing to care and create growing in intensity through attention to it.
Then, people, events, situations show up that match the energy of your positive emotions and even when you feel negative and lose hope or energy for the idea you find a way back to it with strength.
Others join your intent with their good wishes or offers to help and the sense you have that this brain child of yours is beginning to pick up momentum. There is a feeling that energy is flowing towards the intent and you do not need to worry or make too much effort- it is coming of its own accord.
At some point I have experienced that the intent has a life of its own. I did not go out looking for allies when I started my first business but a highly accomplished adminstrative assistant who who could have made double what I could pay her voluntary took a 50% pay cut to be a part of the noble aspiration I had to transform business through education teaching the "Stress Theory" of Hans Selye. She and I would wait at the end of the month, for well over the first year asking each other- "so how is the rent and other payables going to get paid this month"- every time the right amount of money that we were waiting for would show up on time.
It got to be a joke between us about the incredibly mysterious way the receivables would come when it was needed.

Of course, I was owed the money and it had been my effort to make the money but the way it came on time each month showed how much was out of my control and required my relaxing my grip to let it arrive without my having a heart attack in addition to paying the bills.