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Saturday 08/11/2001
Spiritual practice requires continual course correction. Observing our thoughts and choices reveals the trend of our life. Are we aligning ourselves with peace or chasing after desires? Living a life of zeal, or succumbing to laziness or depression? This is how spiritual practice moves from the theoretical to the practical, from the sentimental to the real.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 08/12/2001
A mind filled with thought activity cannot reflect the peace of the soul and reveal the presence of unity. Like a serene lake reflecting the light of the moon on a clear night the quiet mind is capable of revealing our true divine identity as part of all that is.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 08/13/2001
Make a pilgrimage today to the shrine of your heart where God dwells.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 08/14/2001
To please God please your own soul. When the soul is pleased the mind is peaceful, the heart is open, and the conscience is clear.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 08/15/2001
God helps. It is the nature of the divine to support life. When we offer service we are simply following our deepest nature.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 08/16/2001
A worried mind lives in the future. An unhappy mind lives in the past. Only a peaceful mind abides in the present. When worry haunts you ask: Is it true now? Moods flee in the light of now.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 08/17/2001
Attraction and aversion are the twin poles of desire. To want is attraction; to hate is aversion. To refuse to forgive binds us to the past through aversion. Though consciousness is impartial to attraction or aversion, it registers both as mental imprints. These patterns influence our subsequent thoughts and feelings, which eventually become lenses through which see and interpret the world. Let go. Forgive. Cleanse your mental spectacles by dissolving the old hurts and angers that continue to haunt the soul. Let in the light of God's unconditional love.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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