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Saturday 10/01/2005
Renunciation does not require renouncing the world or our duties in it. The abode of the true renunciate is the cave of the heart. Everything done with nonattachment and love for God in our hearts is renunciation.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 10/02/2005
Be suspicious of the thought that encourages you to begin to practice meditation tomorrow, or next week when you have finished some important work, or when more time is available. Everything depends on God. Begin today.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 10/03/2005
How can one accomplish single-minded devotion to God in the midst of work and family life? See God in all. Serve God in all. Do everything for God.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 10/04/2005
Choose the way of life that leads to increased awareness, enhanced life, and love. Our own aliveness, the soul's deep abiding joy, can point the way.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 10/05/2005
Search out the wily ways of self-interest. Sometimes it's in the driver's seat as we move toward a goal. Other times it encourages us to pull back and refuse to embrace our divine destiny with love and zeal.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 10/06/2005
Above all, be steadfast in meditation. It is the boat that carries you across the river of delusion and keeps you from being lost in the whirlpools of anxious thought.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 10/07/2005
Meditation is not difficult. Getting beyond the ego's resistance to meditation-that can be difficult. For this, nothing but commitment realized through daily practice will suffice.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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