Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day
A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 28

To display His eternal attributes
In their inexhaustible variety,
The Lord made the green fields of time and space.
- Jami

The Lord has strewn little signs of his presence throughout the
universe. The person who is observant will see these signs and know
where the Lord is to be found. There is a marvelous story about a man
looking for the Buddha the way one follows the tracks of an animal in
the jungle. He went around talking to people everywhere, and whenever
he found a person whose life had been transformed he would exclaim,
"Those are the tracks of a really big elephant!"

The men and women who have realized God leave big, unmistakable
tracks. In a smaller way, when we see someone being extremely
patient, someone who can listen quietly to criticism without
retaliating or losing her temper, we might think, "Aha! That's not
my friend Jane; that is the Lord in Jane." Jane is leaving a trail --
broken twigs of patience, torn leaves of kindness -- all subtle signs
by which we can track the Lord's presence.

Though the Lord is present everywhere, the expression of his presence
varies throughout the infinite variety of his creation. Wherever
perfection is approached, his glory is revealed a little more --
among people, among trees, among mountains, among stars.

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
http://www.nilgiri.org/Html/Thoughts/today.html

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