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Thursday 01/19/2006
To pray wholeheartedly one must pray without attachment to outcome. Be completely willing to follow divine will. Refrain from wandering into forgetfulness and attachment to outcomes.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 01/20/2006
The experience of being overwhelmed is more related to desire than it is to action. The same body can fight very hard, kicking feet and thrashing arms in an effort to stay afloat in water or, relax and stay afloat effortlessly.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 01/21/2006
Impatience, frustration, and irritability are all shades of anger related to thwarted desire. If we practice imperturbability, we short circuit the karmic trap brought about by self centered desire and free ourselves from present pain and future unhappiness.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 01/22/2006
To be surrendered to God means living in the moment open to what life brings. This does not mean we float along in our boat of life without steering toward a destination, being tossed here and there with every wave of change. Our course is charted to God-realization, our rudder is service.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 01/23/2006
When all that we do, all that we encounter, everyone and everything is for the sake of God-realization, the attachment to particular outcomes falls away. When the only outcome desired is awakening, whatever happens can serve that purpose.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 01/24/2006
When we are not attached to outcomes and thus do not desire things to be different than they are, we can remain steady in what is called "titiksha" or the state of imperturbability.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 01/25/2006
Those who drink daily from the soul's well of bliss are not driven to seek gratification elsewhere.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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