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Friday 10/16/2020
Renunciation does not require renouncing the world or our duties in it. The cave of the heart is the true renunciate’s abode. Everything done with nonattachment and love for God is renunciation.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 10/17/2020
Love for God is the antidote for the suffering that comes from attachment to things. Detaching from desires can be an austerity practiced with great effort and resolve, or it can happen effortlessly like the wave returning to the ocean.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 10/18/2020
Do not say you will begin to practice meditation tomorrow, or next week when you have finished some critical work, or when more time is available. Everything depends on God. Begin now.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 10/19/2020
The nature of thought is to divide, to compare one thing against another. Love unifies. God is One and free of “other.” Therefore, we can never know God through thought. Only undivided love reveals God’s presence.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 10/20/2020
How can one accomplish single-minded devotion to God amid work and family life? See God in all. Serve the One in all. Do everything for God.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 10/21/2020
The Self does not wake or sleep, come into being or pass from existence. It only seems so from the vantage point of “I,” as the sun appears to the earth to rise and set, appear and disappear.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 10/22/2020
Choose the way that leads to increased awareness, enhanced life, and love. Our aliveness, our deep abiding joy, can serve as the compass.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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