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Monday 10/22/2001
Action taken to support selfish motives ultimately brings bondage and suffering. Selfless service is action that supports freedom and joy.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 10/23/2001
Concentration in meditation acts as a purifying agent for the mind and the heart.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 10/24/2001
In the multitude of supportive acts we perform for ourselves everyday, we never expect a thank you or some acknowledgement. With spiritual vision, we care for others in the same way-spontaneously and without expecting a return.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 10/25/2001
With a mind full of thoughts than run like a stampede of horses, how is it possible to know happiness? When the restless mind is brought to a still point through concentration on God, the stampeding horses stop to drink from the waters of the soul's joy.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 10/26/2001
Of course enlightenment is possible in this lifetime. What other lifetime is there?
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 10/27/2001
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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Sunday 10/28/2001
If we have a little stream of running water in our garden and we want to divert it away from flooding the footpath and into the flowerbed, we must dig a new channel and block the old. Similarly, if we want think of God instead of allowing random thoughts to flood the mind, we must direct and focus our attention.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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