If there is not love in my heart, my being, for all the gifts, all the creativity that has been given to me, I will not successfully paint. Without gratitude flooding my being, coursing through my veins, engulfing me, I do not have the sensitivity to catch the spirit, the essence, the heart, or the soul in the portrait I am painting. It is just a blank, white, stretched canvas….but, I sketch the likeness, I paint the colors, I create depth with color hues…but, how do I capture their love? Their very essence,….the feelings in their heart? the look in their eye? Only through deep, deep gratitude…and then, the painting, the portrait, becomes a spiritual experience. There is life!!!! True magic!!!!! For all to see and share.
Gratitude….
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Today I would like to express my gratitude for the following things:
- I am greatful for the awesome communication my roomate and I share.
- I am greatful to welcome a new roomate to the home and give back the blessings I have recieved from former friends.
- I am greatful for my family and friends.
- I am greatful for this site and it helping me and my awareness of waisting precious time on other social media platforms that are not purposeful in my growth.
- I am greatful for my new outlook.
- I am greatful for my willingness to heal.
- I am greatful for the insight another intent member gave me through one simple sentance: I chose to heal and not to cure.
- I am greatful for my love and kindess.
- I am greatful for the tears I cried this morning as they released some of the inner turmoil.
- I am greatful for the eye watering giggles I shared with my best friend today.
I am blessed
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where ever you are right now, this moment. stop everything your doing and sit or stand
does not matter just take your heart by the hand
open gently while holding dear
and call out and bring the thoughts near
every thing you are grateful for
every moment, breath and more
start simple with the eyes that can see this
build up to all that cant be missed
for the tree out the window that gives us air
for the laughter of children everywhere
for the food we eat, the water we drink
for the love in our lives and the peaceful thoughts we think
for the touch of a friend and the strength to go on
for the lessons in a challenge and joy of a new dawn
for that we are spiritual beings here on earth
for all the ideas we can bring to birth
for every single breath and heartbeat of vitality
you can be grateful for all you are and see
so from my heart to yours wherever you are
I am grateful for your light that shines love like a star!!
for you are me and i am you
so i am so grateful for we can do.
this world that is a gift to share
abundantly with our love and care
so grateful i am and grateful ill be
for every lil experience that comes to me
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A Facebook friend, John Lusk, had this on his status this week:
"I am grateful for noticing my GPS (Gratitude Perception System) was powered off this morning and had the good sense to turn it on and recalibrate it for clearer direction.
I love this — I’ve used the GPS device as a metaphor so many times — and this is the best one!
I love being open to perceiving things to be grateful for! There’s a French proverb that says "Gratitude is the heart’s memory. I’ve been writing 5 things I’m grateful for every night since I read Sarah Ban Breathnach’s book Simple Abundance in 1995. Some nights, after I’ve written the things I’m grateful for in that day, I flip the pages and read what I was grateful for on the same date in the years past. What great memories! My intentional focus on gratitude has led to more and more things to be grateful for.
Let’s remember our internal GPS as we participate in Thanksgiving dinner this year. We can power it up by taking a deep breath. If things become strained or rushed – that’s the time to let the GPS recalibrate!! Thank goodness it does it automatically!!
I am grateful for you, my dear readers. You have kept me on point for 10 years!! Every Friday, no matter what, I get to focus on how I can share Spirit with you. I always feel good when I send it off. I’m grateful for my computer and for the internet, which makes this possible. And I’m grateful for Spirit as It moves through my mind inspiring me, and out my fingers inspiring you!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Blessings, Rev. Angelica
SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT
God is Love – and Love is all there is. I am one with this Infinite Love. It lives and moves and has Its being in me, and I in It. We are One.
I trust Infinite Love to guide me along my Life Path. There is within me a Voice — I now choose to hear it more clearly. It is constantly recalibrating my way as I walk my Path.
It is my automatic pilot. It is my authentic self. I am so grateful to know It.
As I stand in an attitude of gratitude, I set up a wave of Infinite Love that moves throughout the Universe, nurturing, blessing, healing, and guiding whether we are aware of It or not. I now choose to know that as the wave I set up moves outward, It does so with a quickening of Spirit, and an awakening of hearts and minds. A wave of gratitude comes back to me and the circle of Life eternally continues.
I am grateful for this teaching, for the people in my life and for these words – and I release them into the Law of Mind knowing they are done. And so It is.
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Question:
How does one show gratitude when an intent has been manifested? I was wondering how it fits in with the different God response levels you describe in How to Know God. Is gratitude normally a reactive God response?
Answer:
There is no one way one should show one’s gratitude. The main thing is that it should be spontaneous and from the heart. Gratitude can be shown in one’s relationship with God at the Reactive Response, but gratitude can be given at any level of the God Responses. It is the nature of gratitude that changes at each level. At the Fight and Flight level, gratitude is often felt as relief. With the Reactive Response, gratitude take the form of a quid pro quo, as a kind of acknowledgment of a gift. In the Restful Awareness Response, gratitude is the joy of inner peacefulness. Gratitude in the Intuitive Response has the character of insight into the bounty of divinity, whereas with the Creative Response you begin to participate in the creativity and abundance of nature’s blessings. In the Visionary Response you feel gratitude as the grace of God within yourself. Finally, in the Sacred Response you are the wholeness that is includes the one who is grateful, what you are grateful for, and the gratitude itself.
Love,
Deepak
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About Deepak Chopra
Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as "Hollywood's man of the moment, one of publishing's best-selling and most prolific self-help authors." He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India's historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton.His latest book is "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul."Subscribe
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3
Gratitude
Gratitude can do more than make you smile. Research conducted by psychologist Robert Emmons at the University of California at Davis, author of "Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier," has found that it can also improve your health: raise energy levels, promote alertness and determination, improve sleep, and possibly relieve pain and fatigue. Emmons maintains that writing in a gratitude journal a few times a week can create lasting effects.
Here is a partial list of things I am grateful for (in no particular order):
A second lease on life.
Giving my life to God.
A very loving family that includes my husband, my mother, my mother-in-law, my sister-and brother-in laws, my niece, my cats, and my hermit crabs.
I have a beautiful house over my head.
I have generous food on the table and I am a good cook.
My husband is the hardest working, most dedicated, generous man I have ever met.
I have a dedicated art studio which I am finally making good use of.
I have artistic and photographic talents.
I love and I am loved.
I live where I love the weather.
That’s just the beginning. I’ll write again tomorrow about more gratitudes.
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3
Gratitude
Thank you for this day,
for these friends, for this life.
It is a Gift—
I have threatened many times
To return to You—
Unknowing,
Ungrateful,
Ignorant of Who I Am
And of what this life can be.
And always You
sit patiently with me—
waiting
for me to realize how Blessed
I Am.
By your Hands. . .
From Your Heart to Mine.
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3
GRATITUDE!
Our Creator infunded in every and each one of us this never ending thirst for learning.
This action is carried out on a daily basis with our pure love for our humanity, Mother Nature and every Kingdom of God.
In my case I was double blessed because God helped me find great esoteric teachings at an early age. The more I learn my self-commitment to share it with my fellow men and women grows more intensely.
This quality makes me really care about what others have to say about dealing with problem solving aspects. Sincere and honest communication has been my motto. I’m totally concsiuos that we aren’t perfect human beings, but it doesn’t deprive us to seek perfection. I firmly beleive that we are on our way to be reintigration with the UNITY.Our Glorious ONE. Our True Home!
Please accompany me by repeating with our loving hearts this just inspired grateful prayer:
"God please illuminate my mind, open my loving heart so it can radiate Infinite love, comprehension, health and compassion"
Amorifer-alden
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3
With gratitude
Yesterday I posted my first intent and I was truly amazed that I received supports and such beautiful comments. I cannot tell you the joy that I felt, I felt loved and connected. Thank you all and bless you as you go about your day today.
love and light,
djo
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1. Gratitude promotes savoring positive life experiences.
2. Gratitude may increase a sense of confidence and self-worth, by encouraging you to consider what you value about your current life.
3. Gratitude helps you cope with difficulties.
4. Gratitude encourages kindness and other moral behavior.
5. Gratitude helps strengthen relationships.
6. Gratitude inhibits envy.
7. Gratitude helps undermine negative emotions.
8. Gratitude keeps us from taking the good things for granted.
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3
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Allow gratitude to consume you, to overwhelm you. Let gratefulness swell in you until you are fit to burst, like a balloon in your chest ready to explode. And then let it keep coming. Know the joy of being moved into laughter or tears by your gratitude. We have so much to be grateful for, and the more we focus on it, the more it grows. It has been said that there is only one prayer, and that is "Thank you Creator, for all you have given".
Join with me now in this prayer:
"Thank you Creator, for all you have given us. We have been blessed with a body. We have been blessed with a planet to live on, a sky to dream into, and a sun to remind us that there is always light. We have been blessed with each breath we have taken, and we have been blessed with each breath we have given. We have been blessed with a heart to lead us back to Love whenever we walk away from it. We have been blessed with the consciousness to know and feel and think and sense the life that you have given, Creator, and we thank you from the heart of hearts."
Namaste,
Louie.
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A man was heard complaining in an airplane recently that his wi-fi wasn’t working, as told by a comedian (whose name I can not remember). The comedian retorted, "What’s he complaining about? He’s flying through the air!" So often we take life for granted, and are not grateful for the people and things that we have in our lives.
The stock market may be dropping, the housing market may be collapsing, the retail market, and many others, may be crumbling, but there are people and things that are not. The trees are still growing, the flowers are still blooming, and I’m sure if I thought about it long enough, I could lengthen this list beyond reading.
People don’t want to lose weight until they think they are fat. Cars are not fixed until they are broken. Parents don’t help children who are not sick heal. The streets and bridges are not repaired, for the most part, until it is noticed that they are fallen apart.
Yet, people who think they are fat, do work hard to lose weight. Broken cars do get fixed, Sick children are healed by their parents. Old roads and bridges are repaired. It is always darkest before the dawn. Yet, how many of us are looking out of our windows, searching for sunshine?
Life will get worse. Bad things will happen. People will die. Homes will be lost. Money will be stolen. This we all know. What we don’t know is what will come from our own gardens, unless we plant seeds, cultivate the soil and watch it grow. And, we know that to grow a beautiful garden, we need to grow it together.
We need each other now more than ever. We need each other’s support. Each other’s love. Each other’s ears. Last week #caroline went running and missing in Chicago. On Twitter, her relative @adamcohen wrote "can’t say soc(ial) media directly helped find her but it gave family & friends comfort & support".
We are all in this together. This we know.
Let’s help remind each other what we’re grateful for by visiting Twitter and typing in your 140 characters of gratitude including #gratitude so others can do a Twitter search and be reminded of how great it is to be alive, healthy, supporting and supported, loving and loved.
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Gratitude is the key to happiness, prosperity and peace. Gratitude does not mean that we cannot change a situation if it does not make us happy or is not in harmony with inner selves.
Real change can only occur when we accept our current situation as it is and are grateful for the divine spark which is in us and binds us to everyone and everything around us. Then we can take steps to change the situation. If we attempt to change the situation without first accepting it, the same conditioned patterns will emerge and we will find ourselves in a similar situation.
When we feel that we are lacking things, such as money, a good job, good looks or anything else, we continue to attract that which we seek to avoid. We attract what we focus our attention on. If we feel inadequate, that is what we will continue to be. If we feel impoverished, we will never be prosperous.
If we are grateful for what we have now, the universe will respond by giving us abundance. Of course, we cannot pretend to be grateful in order to obtain things. We cannot trick ourselves. If we are pretending, we continue to have deep feelings of lack. Only by truly being grateful will life open itself up to us.
Let’s be grateful, because we have so much to be grateful for.
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3
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If we cannot be grateful for what we have, how can we be grateful for more? I believe each day we express gratitude for each and every area of our lives, we empower the service to humanity;
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3
Gratitude
Dear God,
Goddess, All-that-is
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I believe this to be true, Kris; your passion and love must show in every brush stroke. I think that success is measured by the love of your work, not by the money received by the work performed. I know you are successful by your love for your work…anything you receive monetarily, is just a bonus. <3