Be grateful, not only for today, but for each and everyday. Life itself is our greatest gift because one day it will not be so…Happy Thanksgiving
Being grateful for life occurs naturally when there’s an understanding of how to live from a grateful heart; although gratitude is natural it’s not automatic so cultivating it results in a grateful heart…
Gratitude naturally arises from the heart, but it’s not automatic. It isn’t produced by attaching to anything from the materiel world. If gratitude was from the material world it would coincide with possessions, and that would make a person of wealth more grateful than one who didn’t have much. The true measure of wealth has nothing to do with possessions, true wealth arises from the heart, that’s how it’s measured. You can only be grateful when you are content with life as it is, not with the way you wish it was or how you want it or expect it.
Wanting is never from our true self, it’s from the small self that thinks what’s wanted is needed to be complete. Whenever you want, it means you think life needs to be in some other way; this creates suffering. Having a grateful heart doesn’t mean everything will be as it’s wanted, life must be accepted as it is if you are to be at peace and have a grateful heart; investigate this for yourself. A grateful heart will not shield you from life problems, it will allow you to not create them. Be grateful for your life as it is and you will find your grateful heart, and when life is lived from here there will be harmony with yourself and with all beings. When this occurs you can’t help but to have an attitude of gratitude for life as it is, not because of what you possess, but because of of what naturally arises from your own heart…
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