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Monday 03/21/2016
Grace is essential for experiencing and living an awakened life. Our spiritual progress does not come about purely through our own efforts, though they are essential. It’s the winning combination of self-effort and divine grace that assures an awakened life.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 03/22/2016
We can get so involved in what attracts or concerns us that we forget our actual purpose in life and what really matters. It’s not just doing or accomplishing that is important. Whatever we do is an avenue for spirit to express, for the inner light to be revealed. That really matters.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 03/23/2016
We all have hints that there is more to us, more to life... something greater, vaster, richer, and deeper. This inclination to look for “something more” is the soul seeking to realize itself. Be like a miner following a vein of gold; follow that inclination to its source.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 03/24/2016
Refuge is always at hand. By letting go of the idea that we are separate from the One, we find shelter from any storm. The winds of worries and fears cannot enter the soul’s fortress of peace.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 03/25/2016
The soul is already blissful. Our urge to find and experience lasting happiness is our yearning to actualize our innate joy—to know it, live it, realize it. Why keep looking outside for the happiness that is within?
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 03/26/2016
Divine grace opens us to the direct experience of spiritual power and presence. We know grace when we experience it because we feel it as awe, a kind of tearful joy, a fullness that renders us momentarily speechless. We feel blessed, healed, expanded, lifted up. The experience of Grace is grace.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 03/27/2016
When we realize that what we are looking for is actually within us, we can focus on how to express what we are, rather than on trying to find something that we have never lost or trying to be someone we are not.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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