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Monday 07/30/2001
God is the eternal disinterested friend of all. There is no self-interest in unconditional love.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 07/31/2001
For true compassion to exist, there must be dispassion, the absence of self-interest.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 08/01/2001
Look beyond what you see with your eyes and peer into the day with your heart. Sense the soul's presence and experience it resounding in all that is. Enter the day like a child willing to play and wonder. Be yourself without worry.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 08/02/2001
To increase peace in life -- seek the silence of meditation, the company of those who are spiritually awake, uplifting conversation with others on the path, and work devoted to God.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 08/03/2001
Spirit is unconditional essence, the ultimate ground of being. To know this ground requires the unconditional part of us. Beyond the conditions of mind, beyond what we think and believe, is the divine Self. Seek it out.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 08/04/2001
Relationship with the spiritual teacher allows the love of God to be realized by the student. Love is required for the purpose of the relationship to be fulfilled. First it builds a bridge of faith between teacher and student. Then the student walks across it to the direct experience of God.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 08/05/2001
The teacher is a boat that carries the student across the turbulent river of spiritual immaturity and mistaken beliefs. Attachment to the teacher is natural in the beginning. Once we reach the shore of divine realization, we relinquish that attachment so that inner wisdom may guide us.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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