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Gratefulness
I am grateful, gratefulness found me at last!
I live in the dessert physical location. And I read this and am reminded of the dryness and rough terrain of my mental state, reading this is like a oasis. Thank you as I have begun my journey in mindfulness and compassion, gratefulness. Thank you.
To continue practicing self compassion, to see what I am able to apply from formal meditation and prayers in my daily life. See no difference. To be truly grateful to experience awe.
In the kind embrace of a child, or a mother engulfing the child do I sense great aliveness in my life, but more than that when I feel the safe heaven of refuge or getting an answer to something so painful and irrational as a presence or a open space do I come alive, hence the depth of my mind as a sense. Sensing beyond all things great and small good and bad beautiful and ugly, knowledge and ignorance is the ever present seed of that which gives it existence makes me come alive.
I have been holding on to many things wanting to let it go. The most important one is aversion to pain. I read somewhere we are hard wired for pleasure. I do not think so, if we are aversed to something we breed dislike but love being healing I wish I could look at my pain with kindness. Theoretically I know it so well yet experiencially I am unable to let it go. Letting it go I intitutively know the feeling of freedom and release and space of peace.
As I closed my eyes for this reflection, i remembered my grandfather who would chant early morning loudly and walk around the house. His voice had something which I can not describe but as I grew older in my teenage years when I lacked security I would unconsciously remember his chanting. The gift he gave me was of being loved. He had a nick name for me which meant ” who is dearest to the divine or in other words the each soul”. Which made me feel loved for no reason. My father gave...
As I closed my eyes for this reflection, i remembered my grandfather who would chant early morning loudly and walk around the house. His voice had something which I can not describe but as I grew older in my teenage years when I lacked security I would unconsciously remember his chanting. The gift he gave me was of being loved. He had a nick name for me which meant ” who is dearest to the divine or in other words the each soul”. Which made me feel loved for no reason. My father gave me the gift of loving the good things in life, he put in deep into my awareness that the world is indeed full of good people, the world is a place where we can trust and live safely no matter even if things on the surface looks different. I once scored zero in Maths in school, I was ashamed and scared of his and my mother’s reaction, he had then said” zero is a value one can not subtract or take away or add to it, you must understand what zero is and no human can judge my daughter as only god above knows her value” I was lost in awe and learnt the gift of human value and studies and understanding can be gained but human value is value less. My mother left me the gift to love difficult people for they under go pain and hence difficult. She suffered a lot from depression and anger and sadness , I resented her behaviour and yet craved for her love and all other’s to understand her. Getting to understand my emotional difficulty, I realised she left me a valuable gift that underlying all human differences we perceive lies a domain of connection which is so strong and unconditional. I may not be able to practice it often in difficult circumstances but this understanding leaves me with not loosing my self to too much hurt, or judgement.
Thank you and all with Brother David at Gratefulness.org. A sanctuary online……..honestly on….line…..with the universe.
Mary thank you thank you thank you, as I am practicing self compassion I realise so many things that it is overwhelming yet there is a gentle guidance from within holding me. I have been led to mindful meditation which is so different from what I have been doing praying and waiting for patiently to connect and take refuge within……..yet now I realise mindful meditation is such an important tool which can be so helpful. Today I had a beautiful thought which occurred in my refl...
Mary thank you thank you thank you, as I am practicing self compassion I realise so many things that it is overwhelming yet there is a gentle guidance from within holding me. I have been led to mindful meditation which is so different from what I have been doing praying and waiting for patiently to connect and take refuge within……..yet now I realise mindful meditation is such an important tool which can be so helpful. Today I had a beautiful thought which occurred in my reflection in the morning I feel to share with you and all here” All dharma lead to ME and are limbs of truth and can support each other, have reverence for all’ I felt safe and tranquil. Mary your friendship and support from all here means a lot to me. Thank you once again. Love to all
Thank you beautiful
How I see myself as if present there while you narrate your experience. In other words seeing what coming alive is, as I struggle to bring my sense to see no difference between spiritual and non spiritual as there is no distinction only in our mind. Thank you
The sound of real laughter…….so wonderful
Thank you for your reflection. Helps a lot.
Aine thank you for your reflection.
Mary I admire you.your reflection helps me too. Lots of love
Antoinette, loss of words for your boys and you. All my love.
would you share or explain. it will help all of us for sure. thank you.
Beautiful reflection. What I yearn for all ways and now beginning to recognising it within me and in all.
Christina thank you for these beautiful words ” not so much what she does but how she does it, with a sense of contentment and stability.”
I so agree with you, Ursula.
Thank you for the eternal gift of reminding our self that we are learning and not to get stuck thinking ” what is wrong when stuck in frustration depressed or overwhelmed” That we are students of life’s process of learning and discovery, this reflection renews my spirit of being a child……..thank you.
So wonderful, as you learnt from them, their gifts run in your words. Thank you.
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