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Can The Ocean Fill A Small Hole In The Sand?

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Dear Reader, Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away. Matthew 24:35 Well, Christmas approaches again. I wonder how many of us have thought that perhaps this time should be about contemplating how (it is has been said) to “Cut the 'I' feeling clean across and let your ego die on the cross, to endow on you eternity.” About this, the author of the following is Father Charles Ogada, a Catholic Priest of the Order of the  Holy Ghost Fathers, who revealed this story a few years ago: Many spiritual masters have said that it is with the mind that you can conquer the mind. And this is true. But nay, it is very difficult. Why? Naturally the mind does not want to die. How then can you trick it into destroying itself! How difficult it is for the thief to catch itself. ... Even when one has succeeded through rigorous spiritual exercises in emptying the mind of all thoughts and desires, yet that tiny root-seed-impulse, the seat of ego-consciousness, th