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Thursday 08/20/2015
Sometimes we wonder: how can I possibly give time to spiritual practice when my days are already full? Sages of all traditions, throughout time, have offered the same message: if you put God (realization of the truth) at the center of your life, everything else will come to you with grace and ease.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 08/21/2015
Prayer is our time to return to our Self. It is the best way to begin and end the day but even better—the best way to live throughout the day. Again and again, redirect your attention from thoughts—from considerations of this or that—into your heart, into the center of your Self.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 08/22/2015
When we meditate, we expand our conscious awareness beyond the confines of thought activity and experience the Self as whole. In this thought-free state, we know our wholeness to be true because we experience it. Then, whatever we choose to do, have, or be, is an expression of that innate fullness.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 08/23/2015
If we identify with the personality or ego-self, we are more prone to think we need something that will improve us or make us okay. With spiritual awareness, we still engage in helpful activities that improve our skills or our situation in life. We just don’t mistake what we have or do with what we are. Nothing improves or changes the soul. It is already complete.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 08/24/2015
The idea that another person can make us whole, or bring us fulfillment, is inaccurate. Imagining we are less than we are takes away from a relationship. Bringing our wholeness to a relationship enriches it.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 08/25/2015
The first support for dealing with obstacles is to anticipate them. Anticipate them as part of the growth process leading to greater good. In other words, anticipate that Life will present opportunities for growth.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 08/26/2015
Recognize that Life offers opportunities for growth. Know that the opportunity, and the necessary inspiration for meeting that opportunity, arises from within you.
Ellen Grace O'Brian
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