A selection of extracts from recent entries in my Gratitude Journal.
- "I continue to marvel that I still have all my faculties post the HA!. I remain in relative good health both physically and mentally. My Mother's mind was as bright as a pin right up to her death, even as various physical ailments gradually rounded on her. Whilst my memory fails me from time to time, I do well. I am able to write a lot and to be creative in so many ways. I can plan my life and carry out that plan. All of which are a huge boon and to be thankful for. Yes, there are the ever increasing aches and pains, but they come and go dependent upon usage and weather. I can still be grateful that a lot of my ailments are not permanent losses, as yet."
- "One can only be grateful for what brings you joy, love and a sense of meaning. And you start to find and encounter these things everywhere."
- "To be grateful is to feel a simultaneous impulse to be generous. It is I suspect founded upon a sense of an unburdened love. You feel the flow of love for so many things that it cannot but be expressed in gratitude. Love and joy are like two sides of the same coin, with a similar volition to be generous with one's time, thoughts, feelings and actions."
- "I've been wondering about ingratitude. In my experience it is more often a studied resistance to either expressing gratitude or feeling one is expected to be grateful or coerced to be so. It exists in a reactive relationship with its opposite. It tries, and more often fails, to present itself as rational and reasonable whilst essentially not being either.....Ingratitude is like a form of metaphysical sulk."
- " This morning I'm feeling a bit bereft of gratitude. Its like looking for recognisible faces in a crowd, but not finding any."
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