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Saturday 05/06/2006
Spiritual progress depends on serenity and patience.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 05/07/2006
Happiness is unavoidable when we seek the happiness of others. It is always elusive when we seek it for ourselves alone.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 05/08/2006
The "airplane route" to patience is to go directly to divine remembrance through devotion and meditation. The slower "foot path" is the cultivation of the virtues. We can dwell in the higher true Self through divine remembrance or we can work to reduce the self-serving motives of ego-either way is useful.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 05/09/2006
The self-serving motives of ego are destroyed by serving others, letting go of attachment to particular outcomes, not reacting to praise or blame and giving with no thought of receiving in return.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 05/10/2006
Be a spiritual warrior. Demand a blessing in the situation you struggle with today.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 05/11/2006
Trying to find security and happiness in outer conditions in life is like tying your raft to a log careening in the same rapids. Anchor the raft of your life on the rock of Self realization.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 05/12/2006
Avoiding what we know is not useful to conscious living is a step toward grace. Grace has no requirements; it is universally and abundantly available. With self-discipline we open ourselves to its influence.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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