Gratitude Can Never Be Taught

See...one thing: Gratitude can never be taught. Of course, the idea of feeling grateful can be told to children when they are young so that they know about it. But it remains a social conditioning just like other things, like how you are taught to respect your elders, like how you are taught to wish your teachers in school and other things. It is just a mechanism of the mind, not an actual feeling inside you.

It is only when you start feeling a connection with Existence, real gratitude will arise in you. There is no other way. When gratitude arises in this form, it is not directed to anything in particular, it is just there as your fragrance that"s all.

When this happens, you automatically know that gratitude is your prayer! This prayer is only uplifting. It makes you rise in love and fulfillment. You know the secret of communing with Existence! You know how to feel deeply connected all the time. You know how to enjoy without a reason. You know how to look at everything and everyone as part of the Whole. You know how to integrate instead of dissecting and analyzing and feeling discontented.

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