|
Saturday 12/09/2000
The awakening of "shakti," or spiritual energy, is like lighting a fire in your home. It is useful if it is contained and tended. Then the fire can be used for cooking or heating the house. Without the container, it will burn the house down. Spiritual practice is the container for awakened energy.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
|
|
Sunday 12/10/2000
The right relationship to all action is this: everything for God.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
|
|
Monday 12/11/2000
When we pray in secret, communing with God in the silent chambers of the soul, God responds to us openly through the channels of perception in the world-dreams, synchronicities, events or communications.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
|
|
Tuesday 12/12/2000
God comes to us through whatever channel is open.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
|
|
Wednesday 12/13/2000
For an action to be pure it must be accomplished purely throughout. The initial intention toward action must be the desire to please God, the action itself must be only for God without attachment to the fruits, and the completion of the action must be an offering to God with complete surrender of the outcome.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
|
|
Thursday 12/14/2000
The teachings, when embraced with faith and practiced by the devotee, are the connecting link between guru and disciple, or spiritual teacher and student.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
|
|
Friday 12/15/2000
To imagine we understand God is like taking a jar of ocean water and saying, "Here, this is the ocean!"
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
|
