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Thursday 01/12/2006
Our passion in our life is our response to the presence of God.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 01/13/2006
When our youth taste the truth, when they feel compassion, when they know the joy that comes through serving, when they feel the passion of what it is like to live a vision greater than oneself--they will not settle for a complacent, conforming, materialistic, opportunistic, stress-filled, self-centered life. We can be beacons of light for the children of our world.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 01/14/2006
Miracles occur when we trust God and bring forth the gifts of our own being, when inspiration becomes action and guidance becomes witness.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 01/15/2006
Cutting off a particular train of thought is like cauterizing a vein--the energy must then seek another path. As dissipating thoughts are continuously "cauterized" through conscious discrimination, the energy of Self-realization grows. It is possible to have ones thoughts immersed in God but only through the self-discipline of "cauterization."
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 01/16/2006
Humility is the absolute willingness and commitment to be fully who we are.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 01/17/2006
It is not only the worldly ego -- the aspect of self that has no interest in spiritual matters--that is the enemy of the soul but the "pseudo-spiritualized ego" -- the ego that pretends to do spiritual work but on its own time frame, according to its own idea and agenda, and without surrender.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 01/18/2006
In our work for God we step into the stream of grace. With attachment to the results of our actions we step out of it, removing ourselves form the flow of guidance and inspiration continually available to the surrendered heart.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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