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Thursday 10/23/2008
Don’t wait to be prosperous. Don’t look for outer conditions to change in order to declare yourself prosperous, to declare yourself a child of God, to declare yourself happy and successful. Don’t wait; accept your spiritual inheritance now.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 10/24/2008
Action taken to support selfish motives ultimately brings bondage and suffering. Selfless service supports freedom and joy for all concerned.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 10/25/2008
Concentration acts as a purifying agent for the mind and the heart and prepares the way for meditation.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 10/26/2008
We perform many supportive acts for ourselves everyday without expecting any acknowledgement. With spiritual vision, we can care for others in the same way—spontaneously and without expecting a return.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 10/27/2008
With a mind full of thoughts that run like a stampede of horses, how is it possible to know happiness? When the restless mind is brought to a still point through meditation, the stampeding horses stop to drink from the waters of the soul’s joy.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 10/28/2008
Enlightenment is possible in this lifetime. What other lifetime is there?
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 10/29/2008
The mind becomes steady through meditation and dispassion—remaining even-minded or nonreactive to changing conditions, supremely free from any form of attraction or aversion.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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