| People who live in happiness tend to express | | | | think that God does things for them, gives them |
| gratitude for every little thing-all the concrete | | | | things and takes things away. When you think |
| things--in their lives. Since well being includes body, | | | | that way the best you can do with gratitude is |
| mind and spirit, the happiest people in the world | | | | thanking God for giving you XYZ. |
| are those who develop and appreciate their | | | | When you remember your connection and live in |
| spirituality. | | | | that truth then you feel an indescribable feeling |
| Defining the spiritual aspect of gratitude poses a | | | | inside-deep in your heart-of gratitude. This kind of |
| challenge in that it is a knowing and therefore | | | | gratitude fills you up with love-a love that differs |
| more of a theoretical practice than something | | | | from all other forms of love. |
| tangible to grasp. Gratitude, in its purest form, is | | | | One of my friends describes that feeling as a |
| remembering, honoring and living as One with God, | | | | fullness, a weeping that actually seems to |
| Source, The Universe, Creator--whatever term | | | | overflow beyond one's self. It is such a deep |
| you choose to use. | | | | sense f thanks for existence and All-That-Is that |
| When people fail to live in happiness they rarely | | | | no words could begin to communicate that feeling. |
| recognize that existence results when one | | | | Spiritual gratitude is a knowing. It is something |
| separates from God. Of course no one can truly | | | | inside each individual-and therefore is completely |
| make that separation. We are all One and all | | | | personal. No two people share the exact feeling |
| connected to each other as well as to God. | | | | of gratitude that results from living in the Oneness |
| Yet most people live as though God is "out there" | | | | with God. No one can ever live in happiness -in its |
| in some place in the sky, a mysterious place called | | | | highest and purest form--without that knowing. |
| heaven. Living in that mindset causes people to | | | | |