The light that illuminates our journey is in our heart.
It protects and guides us, comforts us and is in ourselves.
Only when we “perceive” what we have in our heart, do we experience inner comfort.
The more information we receive, the more we learn or absorb knowledge, we will only feel really comfortable and happy, we will only feel fully harmonious, light and filled with energy when the sublime feeling of gratitude is present in us.
The comfortable seat of the heart, cozy and transforming, is the feeling of gratitude.
When there is no feeling of gratitude in our heart, when we do not let it come alive inside of us, there will be a void within the being.
The energy of enthusiasm can be disguised with attractive objectives or goals, however the latent enthusiasm, the one that sprouts within the soul, the enthusiasm of living, breathing, simply of being, this will only be expressed when there is gratitude within the soul.
Gratitude gives graceful shapes, full of harmony, to life.
Gratitude fills the void that expectation creates!
It empties the dense weight of fear and alleviates the pain of sadness.
The feeling of gratitude is magical, it is like a rainbow in our lives.
Gratitude is the illuminated form of devotion.
Fear and the misunderstanding of the energy of devotion lead to the emptying of gratitude. Such fear was born in the mind, not the heart, which can convert it from darkness to light once again.
The feeling of devotion has been translated by the mind and have been removing the human being from the essence of a feeling which is sublime, but which must have manifestation from the inside to the outside and not from the outside to the inside.
Many rituals have nurtured this mistake.
The strength of gratitude in the hearts translates the strength of wisdom and opens the channels for light, giving conditions to live with the most diverse cultural, philosophical or spiritual practices, always connecting to the essence and never losing oneself in appearances.
Without gratitude in the heart there is room for the expression of arrogance, lack of love, lack of understanding and respect and this leads to the breach of harmony in the chain of manifestations of the several energetic patterns which lead people to stay in tune in accordance with what they perceive and value. Obviously this changes or can change from time to time.
Instead of being in tune with the essence that generates the manifestation and living that moment, the person, leaving the essence aside, takes the direction of the clothing of dogmas and beliefs and makes use of weapons to attack, even believing to be defending himself or defending what he believes in. He does not even note that the ammunition that causes the damage is inside himself.
When attacking what he sees, or thinks he sees, he will be attacking himself, contributing for the rupture of the links of the chain of harmony in the planet.
To perceive gratitude and to love its expression helps to revitalize the inner peace and its manifestation in living.
To give a chance to make the most of the moments which present themselves, with no thought of attack, even if translated by the mind as being defense, means to be grateful to life, to oneself and to God.
Fool is the one who attacks himself, while the wise person is the one who has gratitude in his heart.
Gratitude is an active feeling, which loads the most powerful weapon which may exist and which are the most subtle ones. These are the weapons of the future, which are not used to attack or assault, but which have almost unlimited power, as they are able to create invulnerability.
These are genuine love, authentic happiness, wisdom, inner peace, compassion, tolerance, humility, and the will that create our shield of invulnerability.
The key to activate it is gratitude.
The shield of invulnerability is always available, the question is to activate it. Through the weapons of the future, our vibration field – the shield of invulnerability, will be naturally be restored and strengthened.
To react and attack are bad habits, born from insecurity and fears and which soon will belong to the past.
To act means to own the authorship of the moment, assuming your attitudes with the greatest legitimacy possible. And there is nothing more legitimate in the human being than his innate qualities.
What we receive from life is always gratifying!
To deal with difficult situations, problems, disrespect, etc. must not be considered as a confrontation or a competition, however we must re-program our mind and establish a new interpretation for such situations, where instead of “reacting”, we must, more than anything, “act” and understand that, for this, we do not need the weapons of reaction or attacks.
We can envisage “actions” which have “spirit”. These are born from our latent values and strengthened in the heart.
The “reactions” are fantasies that deceive the ego and disturb the being, as they make a misleading manifestation of the will.
The game of exercising the reaction, which has become customary for the humankind, has a small and ultimate secret: it can only survive if we feed the reactions and only has efficacy when in a relationship between egos. It dismantles when seen by the eyes of a wise person.
When “acting” we will be “face to face” with reality which presents itself, without letting us be struck down by traps which will only work if we activate them, which is what happens when we “react”.
“To react” and “to attack” are the easiest ways of falling into such traps.
The subtlety of the love of an intuitive heart and the wisdom of a clean and serene mind will express the power and the strength of the being in any situation and will guide him to positions which will lead to achievements without making use of violence or aggressiveness, with oneself and with others.
When we are in peace we are manifesting gratitude.
Gratitude to life is a matter of attitude!
And this depends on each one of us.
To see under this prism of light, born and bred within each one, helps to evidence and make relevant a renovated and special method of living with the gifts that we start to aggregate to our heart and to the power and wisdom that we start to associate with our “learning”, in the way of action and non violence.
Author: Herbert Santos
Source: http://listeningtothestars.com
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