Gratitude

  Gratitude:

There are so many different ways to sing the song of unconditional life. Gratitude is one of those ways.

So what is state of gratitude?  State of gratitude is one of the best prescriptions to be in the present.

Most of the time we are in the past or in the future, it is like we have the ability to see, still we prefer to put blindfold on our eyes with our own hands and try our best to be not in the present, and our consistent refusal to exist (since past and future both do not exist, we can only exist in the present by being present), to live and to bloom. It is like every unfolding moment is trying it’s best, with changing seasons, changing weather, spring after spring bringing beautiful colorful flowers full of fragrance, waterfalls full of music, beautiful birds and other species, sun performs all day long from east to west, moon and the stars decorate the sky at night, clouds bring rain, and at times electrifying performance of thunder and lightning etc. all these efforts to wake us up, to help us take our blindfold off our eyes, to liberate us from the past  and the future, to be in the present and enjoy every unfolding moment, to love, to sing the song of unconditional life.      

 Let’s assume that the past and the future both exists, the past is sweet and bitter, so most of the time bitterness from the past occupies the present, it creates more bitter past and totally swallows the future, this process can create a huge monster of darkness if one of the light switches is not turned on, as soon as possible. These light switches are not on any wall, they are within all of us, one of the light switches is called Gratitude, we have to be in the present to turn it on, the moment we turn it on, the monster of darkness vanishes, we start creating sweeter past, pleasant present and the state of gratitude becomes one of the stepping stones and the milestones for sweet future.

Let me share an example.

 I must express my gratitude to that glass window; we all know that the sun rises in the east. Now will you believe if I tell you that in the morning the sunlight enters my home from the west, you better believe it, because that’s what happens. There are some homes to the east and the west of my home that are at a higher elevation, so when the sun is still behind the homes to my east, I get the sunlight from the west, as the sunlight gets reflected from the glass window of the home to my west, that glass window becomes the medium of light for me in the morning for at least ten minutes. So that glass window is for sure on my gratitude list.         

It always helps to make a gratitude list. On my gratitude list besides human beings, and light reflecting glass window, I have other species, plants, planets, waterfalls etc., mother earth, its gravity(imagine life on this planet without gravity) and so many other things. Now that gratitude list is even longer, beyond my imagination. I have on the gratitude list, my this huge blogger family, thank you so much for letting me be a part of your precious moment in time. There is so much to be thankful for at this Mother Earth School of Life Performing Arts.

When we are in the state of gratitude, there are no conflicts, no questions, no concerns, no quest, no complains….., we are so complete, so content, we are trying to find the best words to thank, and every word in the dictionary feels small in comparison to the gifts that we have received. In that moment when we close our eyes for a second we feel as if the whole universe is within us, that’s how complete we feel in the state of gratitude. That is the beauty of gratitude; the moment we are in Gratitude it not only transforms us, it transforms our universe too.

Wish you all the transforming experiences in the state of Gratitude.

Let’s sing the song of unconditional life together.

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