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Grateful For Change
Gratitude is an often misunderstood attitude. It is implying the “neediness” of the recipient, in many peoples minds. Gratitude is sort of an awkward english word. Gratitude really could be considered present centered love. It has countless objects, but I am not certain it really needs any object. Gratitude is a necessary state of peace…
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Nature Just Lives
All is ok? All is balanced? Oh, all balances. It is balanced unless we resist, and we resist a lot. It is balanced no matter what we do? That is true. By itself it is. But from the individual point of view, it can seem not to be. But with resistance the balance will be…
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Life Is Spiritual
At this moment I see ego as eternal. Self is eternal. The atman is eternal. Atman = microcosm. It’s us. We are the image of the source. Universal consciousness? Consciousness is universal. Gratitude is harmony with universal consciousness. I meditate, but in the back of my mind I still think, “Oh dear, all those people…
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Attachment vs. Connection
Who is free of all attachments? I am not free of connections, but in your thinking, I am free of attachments. I officially have no role. My life is very humble. It is not bad. I do not suffer from these facts. When I suffer is when I think that these attachments, these roles, define…
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Real Life Motivation
Science has been making some amazing progress in understanding the human brain and the experience it provides us. What could be called our mind. One of the things that science understands, but society is not yet implementing, is the nature of motivation. ‘Do this to get that’ is not effective in the majority of cases,…
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On Guard
Why do so many people seem to have difficulty feeling their lives have value? Because they allow other people to determine their value. No direct line of sight to its impact? Does everyone here feel easily and fully that their life is valuable? Important and meaningful? I used to. Not easily and fully, no. I…
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Infant Values
To tie this back to intrinsic worth, what is the very first thing an infant values? Food? Affection? Touch. Milk. Physical security. Nothing abstract like that. That’s adult thinking. They value the experience of mother. They can’t identify anything from a utilitarian sense. They don’t know the purpose of a single thing and can see…
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Sense of Worth
Where do we lose our sense of intrinsic worth? And why do we? How did we come to orient on utility? Why did we come to care about what use a thing is? About what use a person is? I think we start to care about utility when we are doing without. Capitalism is all…
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Ground in Gratitude
For most, just the fact of being alive (I mean bottom line still breathing) has intrinsic worth. Shall we run with this assumption? Anyone here want to die? I certainly don’t. So I will run with this. Because we don’t want to die, certain additional activities also have intrinsic worth. Eating, sleeping, breathing, but we…
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Live for Love
We all have things we are grateful for naturally, without anyone telling us we have to be. Gratitude has nothing to do with owing anybody anything. Gratitude that is obligatory is a hideous lie. Obligatory gratitude is actually shame. Shame on you for needing love. Shame on you for demanding respect. I have no use…
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What is Gratitude?
I think the idea of gratitude is for the most part misunderstood. It is often seen as a humiliation. But if you think about it, there is nothing more ennobling. When you are in the experience of gratitude, you are in peace. You are in the present. When you cannot rest in the now, gratitude…
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Gratitude is …
There is a simpler word for gratitude, but the word is generally seen in a more abstract light. Gratitude is love. We didn’t make ourselves. We are not the source of our own advent. We still exist due to a process that we can’t really control and we don’t need to. Gratitude is faith, present…
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Life of Gratitude
Imagine a life of gratitude? For what we are. For what we can do. For what we can experience. Would that be a selfish life? Why are we taught it is? Really, the secret of gratitude isn’t a secret. It’s realizing a simple truth. We are connected, not chained. Supported. We are connected by genetic…
Category: Gratitude
Do you just say ‘thank you’, or are you grateful? There is a difference. Live a life of gratitude and feel faith and love. Gratitude can guide us to right action. There are difficulties and problems in life. Accept them and fully understand life. The face of gratitude shines.
If you would choose a focus for contemplation, for meditation, find gratitude in your heart. You could spend your life with it to much healing and benefit for you and others.
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people” Samuel Johnson
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears” Anthony Robbins (American advisor to leaders)