Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day
A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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Thy desire is thy prayer; and if thy desire is without ceasing,
thy prayer will also be without ceasing. . . . The continuance of
your longing is the continuance of your prayer. - Saint Augustine

I once had a physicist friend who would gladly discuss electric power;
but harnessing the power of a passion or a craving - well, that was
not dynamics; that was poetry. "Power," he told me sternly, "is the
capacity to do work. Work is the energy required to move a definite
mass a definite distance. No movement, no work. No work, no power."

Day or night I had never seen my friend far from his desk. Then late
one evening I came out of a movie theater and saw him striding along
like an athlete, several miles from his office. "What got you up from
your desk?" I asked. "You're breaking the habits of a lifetime."

"Coffee," he muttered. "I ran out of coffee."

"Here," I said, "a very definite mass has been propelled at least
three miles, simply by one little desire for a cup of coffee."
He got my point.

Every deep desire is a prayer. Every desire also contains a certain
quantum of energy - energy to grasp the desired goal.

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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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