Everywhere & Everything
Everywhere I look abundance and every moment gratitude. There is nowhere to go and nothing needed.
One way I see our situation is that creation or the universe is like a tree. Love is the flowers of the tree, and the human being is the final fruit of the tree, the final fruit of creation. The thick nectar of the ripe fruit is gratitude. Gratitude for how things are, gratitude for being vulnerable, gratitude that you can be completely influenceable. Gratitude for being human. – A. H. Almaas
Appreciation floods my soul in recognizing the preciousness of the human experience.
As you may notice, the notion of oneness has quite an impact on your mind; it is a possibility that your mind doesn’t usually conceive of. The idea of it has an impact. Now, imagine what the experience is like. The more the person has an experience of oneness, the more the person will be walking around with a question mark: How can that be? What does that mean? You are eating your food, and you ask, “What am I eating? I am eating myself.” For your mind, it is completely incomprehensible. It takes time for the mind to get used to it, to adjust itself, to realize, “Yeah, I do not really have to think the way I usually think, I do not really have to go about my life the way I usually go about it. Things are not really like that.” The goodness and abundance is in every point and all of existence. It is not here or there. – A. H. Almaas
