gratitude is the key to balance

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crow

 

I agree with you completely about gratitude.

i remember you onced advised: fake it till you make it...

but here i think : we need more than this.

if the feeling of gratitude is not sencere - it might become a burden.

 

Although the creator had been soooo kind to me in life and sent me so many

blessings - i tend to be forgetful and after a while I can feel

some false pride (trait that i'm not proud off), - i still have not figured

out why this happens.

 

however i know that a feeling of sencere gratitude is the basis to

complete health, balance (why is it so difficult to be in the middle? i tend

to fluctuate between the poles, the extremes) and right proportions. to

make long story short : it pulls more blessings.

Anat

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it's me again:

 

I told the beautiful joke about " use your dirt " to many people around.

 

they just grinned - but to me this is a wonderful joke - i felt so thrilled

when i read it -]

and enthusiastic

and i think it happened because it resonated so much inside -

it was like a mirror reflcting something so strong in side: the false pride,

forgetting the real owner of the credit. it made me feel ashame - it moved

me so much

 

that's why i adored the story

[Guest guest]

Anat:

 

Well, shame wasn't where I was aiming, but it's a start ;-) Perhaps we can

reach a place of understanding with

our dialects again... let's try for the word 'humble':

 

Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin 'humilis' low,

humble, from 'humus' earth; akin to

Greek 'chthOn' earth, 'chamai' on the ground

13th century

1 : not proud or haughty : not arrogant

2 : reflecting, expressing, or offered in a spirit of deference or

submission <a humble apology>

 

That's from old Merriam Webster again :-)

 

When I think of the quality of humility, I think of how I feel when I experience

something in life that reminds me

of the awesome scope of the universe, that makes me feel such honor at being a

part of it. There is amazement and

joy, as well as respect. Nature never fails to give me those moments, and when

I pay attention, nothing else

does, either.

 

Like you, Anat... you help me to stay humble.

 

Of course, false gratitude is not really helpful... it's more like ingratiation,

and that's not really satisfying

on either side. But if by exercising the muscles, taking the time to imagine

what it must feel like to be happy,

grateful, peaceful, whatever, then it will help you see the brief times you may

have experienced the feeling and

ignored it or failed to recognize it. That is what it means to " fake it 'til

you make it " !

 

Namaste'

Crow

 

 

pine wrote:

 

> it's me again:

>

> I told the beautiful joke about " use your dirt " to many people around.

>

> they just grinned - but to me this is a wonderful joke - i felt so thrilled

when i read it -]

> and enthusiastic and i think it happened because it resonated so much inside

-

> it was like a mirror reflcting something so strong in side: the false pride,

forgetting the real owner of the

> credit. it made me feel ashame - it moved me so much

>

> that's why i adored the story

>

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