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Friday 08/14/2026 Relating to others with compassion, working with integrity, and keeping our balance as we navigate life's changes is how we live spiritual teachings—moment to conscious moment. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
Saturday 08/15/2026 Before the bloom—the beautiful flower and fragrance that we appreciate—an opening must occur. Every blossom requires letting go. We all know this. And yet, it is human nature to focus on the bloom and forget about the transformation that preceded it. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
Sunday 08/16/2026 Letting go is necessary to expand our capacity to receive. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
Monday 08/17/2026 Tend your spiritual life by weeding out self-limiting beliefs and non-useful behaviors. Set helpful boundaries around people or circumstances that deplete your energy or distract from your primary purpose. Include daily immersion in the life-giving waters of spiritual study and exposure to the soul's light in superconscious meditation. These are necessary practices to harvest a healthy, harmonious, happy life. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
Tuesday 08/18/2026 We cannot change or control many things in life, but we do have the power to transform our minds and our experience of life. We can become more patient, kind, insightful, and compassionate. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
Wednesday 08/19/2026 Our spiritual practice allows us to see with fresh eyes. Seeing clearly is seeing things and people as they are, not as we hope or think they should be. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
Thursday 08/20/2026 A common error is to see through the filter of our memory and superimpose the past on the present. Removing that conceptual overlay is one of the goals of yoga practice. To be spiritually awake is to see things as they are, not as we are. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian