Monday 06/19/2023
The nature of thought is to divide, to compare one thing against another. Love unifies. God is One and free of “other.” Therefore, God can never be known through thought. Only undivided love reveals God’s presence.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 06/20/2023
How can one accomplish single-minded devotion to God in the midst of work and family life? See God in all. Serve God in all. Do everything for God.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 06/21/2023
The Self does not wake or sleep, come into being, or pass from existence. It only seems so from the vantage point of “I,” as the sun appears to the earth to rise and set, appear and disappear.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 06/22/2023
Choose the way that leads to increased awareness, enhanced life, and love. Our aliveness, our deep abiding joy, can serve as the compass.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 06/23/2023
Search out the wily ways of self-interest. Sometimes it’s in the driver’s seat as we move toward a goal. Other times it encourages us to pull back and refuse to embrace our divine destiny with love and zeal.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 06/24/2023
Above all, be steadfast in meditation. It is the boat that carries you across the river of delusion and keeps you from being lost in the whirlpools of anxious thought.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 06/25/2023
Meditation is not difficult. Getting beyond the ego’s resistance to meditation—that is difficult. For this, nothing but commitment realized through daily practice will suffice.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
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