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Tuesday 04/04/2006
As we learn to restrain the impulses of the ego's selfish desires, our relationships with others naturally improve. The soul's joy lights up our heart and mind and illumines our interactions with others.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 04/05/2006
As we begin to live by the light of the soul's joy, everything else seems dull in comparison. For the devotee who has awakened to a life lived in divine love, there is only that. Nothing else will satisfy.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 04/06/2006
The mind, which has been allowed to roam wherever it will, at first resists the discipline of meditation. With focus and ceaseless striving, the goal of inner peace is attained.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 04/07/2006
Once the mind is brought under control of the concentrated will, persistent striving to maintain steadiness is required. Return again and again to the object of meditation, until at last the peaceful state prevails.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 04/08/2006
To experience God as our refuge--our shelter and support--we must discern the divine presence in all.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 04/09/2006
The power of peacemaking in our lives is the power of presence, the spiritual power of divine love, which can and will transform our lives and our world.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Monday 04/10/2006
When the senses are purified through spiritual practice the self serving of the ego gives way to the experience of awe. When we are free of the desire to possess the beauty we experience we can experience it with radical amazement.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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