Correct Gratefulness
“With Gratefulness comes servitude to do good. For without service to all beings, Gratefulness seems selfish”
The Grateful Prayer
Being Grateful is a moving sensation that runs through your body, resets you in the moment. It’s not a mantra or daily affirmation that is practiced senselessly.
It’s a moment of surrender of your self fully to that gift you have received for which you are unconditionally grateful.
starting your day with this and having many moments throughout your day is what is Prayer.
Sorry, but No chants, no memorizations, no verses will get you there without this clarity and humility. All praise to the unknown amidst my pain and grateful for the moments. APTTU.
Being grateful is not a fluctuating index.
Being grateful is not a fluctuating stock market index, it is a fixed value. Just because you know someone or yourself more today doesn’t mean you can stop being grateful to someone for how kindly they treated you yesterday.
I don’t think people change. I think our opinions of people change or they grow with context and experiences which is quite fair and understandable. But it is important to equally remember how grateful you were for them in your life, and it is important to carry that gratefulness forward throughout that relationship whether it be your mother, your friend, your coworker, the shop keeper. It may even make their day for all you don’t know! Because your gratitude is like your integrity or bond with no expectations, with no reservations that is true gratitude, being grateful for who they were to you.
This is a note to self as much as it is for anyone who reads this. I find myself forgetting to be grateful to/for the people around me. Many of my relationships have started with thoughts of gratitude. My gratitude towards them was one of the first things I locked-in, I experienced in that relationship, and that gratitude cannot change in my mind simply because I know more about them now or I have changed. Being grateful is a constant carried, not a variable that is adjusted. All Praise to the Unknown.
Strangers
Truth is each life including mine that’s doing alright was, is nurtured by a handful of loved ones and a million or so total strangers from the past and the present. We often fail to realize how many total strangers just by virtue of their convictions, ways and fears have helped us be us, invariably touched or shaped our life’s’ many moments. Just #being grateful for kind acts from total strangers
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