Gratitude

Awareness of your blessings inevitably leads to gratitude.

If your awareness leads you to think of only problems, then try focusing on gratitude. One of the simplest ways to experience grace is to reflect on what you are grateful for. To receive grace, give gratitude.

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Here's an experiment you can try. Next time you are feeling blue, try gratitude. Remember what is good in your life. And if nothing seems good in your life, (and there will be days like this) then start by giving thanks for your next breath and the billions of oxygen molecules that are giving you energy. Then give thanks for your heart that transports this oxygen to energize your body.

To be in grace is to be grateful. Take nothing for granted. Honor your elders, teachers and leaders. What secret gift lies in what troubles you? Saying grace gives grace, the state of loving, expanded, ecstatic, joyful, connected, transcendence. See the world through grateful-colored glasses. Acknowledgment the gift of interdependence. Give grace to get grace.

"The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy."
~ Rev. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Catholic Priest.

"If the only prayer you ever say is 'thank you' that would suffice,
~ Meister Eckhart.

"When you realize that nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you,"
~ Lao Tzu

"Gratitude is the realization that we have everything that we need,"
~ MJ Ryan

"Celebrate what you want to see more of,"
~ Tom Peters.

"If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want, " ~ Anonymous.

"The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving,"
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast.

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated,"
~ William James

Gratitude

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