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Saturday 03/16/2002
Renunciation does not require renouncing the world or our duties in it. The abode of the true renunciate is the cave of the heart. Everything done with nonattachment and love for God in our hearts is renunciation.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 03/17/2002
Love for God is the antidote for the suffering that comes from attachment to things. Detaching from desires can be an austerity practiced with great effort and resolve, or it can happen effortlessly like the wave returning to the ocean.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 03/18/2002
Do not say you will begin to practice meditation tomorrow, or next week when you have finished some important work, or when more time is available. Everything depends on God. Begin today.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 03/19/2002
The nature of thought is to divide, to compare one thing against another. Love unifies. God, which has no other, can never be known through thought. Only undivided love reveals God's presence.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 03/20/2002
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.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 03/21/2002
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.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 03/22/2002
Choose the way that leads to increased awareness, enhanced life, and love. Our own aliveness, our deep abiding joy, can serve as the compass.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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