Where Gratitude Really has Power - (4168)

For me now, where gratitude has its power is in transforming the negative.

The real value is outside of duality. That is, it does not only work for the positive things we receive. That's how the ego works in one side of duality.

This is really where we need it working for us, on the negatiove side. Helping us to transform the negative into consciousness.

To see that each fight, each argument, each negative impression, each 'no', each difficult time, each insult, is if we decide to work on it is a valuable chance to get something for our consciousness. 

When we work, we transform those things mentioned above into a gift. A valuable gift that we give ourselves - the gift of more consciousness. 

Feeling the new awareness we automatically feel grateful.

But where gratitude comes into the picture is before we work, just when we receive the negative impression. Because gratitude being conscious, it knows that eveything can be transformed and for gratitude to be, it knows it must bring the work so that we can transform the negative impression for it to manifest, which means for us to be grateful.

This is not false gratitude that abounds everywhere - people saying thank you all the time but not feeling it.

Gratitude knows or is open to the fact that a negative thing can be a positive in disguise later down the track.

End (4168).