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Thursday 05/10/2001
Be a spiritual warrior. Demand a blessing in the situation you struggle with today.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 05/11/2001
Trying to find security and happiness in outer conditions in life is like tying your raft to a log careening in the same rapids. Anchor the raft of your life on the rock of Self realization.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 05/12/2001
Practicing renunciation or abstinence, avoiding what is not useful to conscious living, is a step toward grace. Grace has no requirements. It is universally and abundantly available. With self-discipline we open ourselves to its influence.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 05/13/2001
Prayer for the workplace: "God be my day planner today. Help me to remember that You call all of the meetings and that all work is for your sake. When I see my co-workers I will think only of You. I will put them first offering my service at your lotus feet. The workplace will be my practice hall today."
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 05/14/2001
People often think of eternity as being a very long time but it is beyond time. Eternal life is freedom from time.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 05/15/2001
On the physical plane life and death appear as opposites. With spiritual vision, birth and death are shown to be the opposites. Life is the container for them both.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 05/16/2001
When a desire is satisfied a temporary calm appears in the mind. We interpret this as happiness found through having our desires fulfilled. What we do not notice is that this happiness doesn't arrive alone. It comes with a belief. That belief says: Fulfillment of desire is the way to happiness. When the pleasure from the fulfillment of that desire exhausts itself, off we go in search of more.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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