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Saturday 05/17/2008
It is not only the worldly ego, the aspect of self that has no interest in spiritual matters, that is the enemy of the soul but also the "pseudo-spiritualized ego." This is the ego that pretends to do spiritual work but on its own time frame, according to its own agenda, and without surrender.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 05/18/2008
Through serving God, or the highest good, we step into the stream of grace. With personal attachment to the results of our actions we step out of it, removing ourselves form the flow of guidance and inspiration continually available to the surrendered heart.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 05/19/2008
To pray wholeheartedly, pray without attachment to outcome. Be completely willing to follow divine will. Refrain from wandering into forgetfulness and attachment to particular outcomes.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 05/20/2008
The feeling of overwhelm is more related to desire than it is to action. The same body can fight hard, kicking feet and thrashing arms to stay afloat in water or, relax and stay afloat effortlessly.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 05/21/2008
Impatience, frustration, and irritability are all shades of anger related to thwarted desire. If we practice imperturbability, we short circuit the karmic trap and free ourselves from present pain and future unhappiness.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 05/22/2008
To be surrendered to God means living in the moment, open to what life brings. This does not mean that we float along in our boat of life without steering toward a destination, being tossed here and there with every wave of change. Our course is charted to God-realization, and our rudder is service.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 05/23/2008
When all that we do, all that we encounter, everyone and everything is for the sake of God-realization, the attachment to particular outcomes falls away. When the only outcome desired is spiritual awakening, whatever happens can serve that purpose.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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