Thought for the Day
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A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 24

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
- Sri Ramakrishna

All that you and I have to do is to put up our sails and let the wind
of grace carry us across the sea of life to the other shore. But most
of us are firmly stuck on this shore. Our sail is in tatters and our
boat cannot move because of all the excess baggage weighing it down:
our likes and dislikes, our habits and opinions, all the resentments
and hostilities which we have carefully acquired. But just as
it is we, ourselves, who have acquired this baggage, it is we who
can gradually learn to toss it overboard. The wind is blowing, but
we have to make our boat seaworthy. We can patch up our sail, and
unfurl it to catch the wind that will carry us to the other shore.

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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