GRATITUDE DEFINITIONS

Allow yourself the time to click on these words and explore these definition possibilities...

letting in the feeling of gratitude.

"Grateful - A Song Of Giving Thanks" sung by Art Garfunkel 

HOLOGRAPHIC SELF

AIR/LUNGS

NOW

MYSELF

BEAUTY

WONDER

LOVE

COMFORT

RESPECT

HONOR

FREEDOM

AWARENESS

FORGIVENESS

PEACE

DEFINITIONS

• HOLOGRAPHIC SELF - I (dentity) am one part of the whole All That Is. By this definition, I am connected to, in relationship with, and in communication with All That Is.                          

• AIR/LUNGS - The combined/ living event/experience that nourishes the body/mind/spirit.  Non-physicality and physicality in harmony.

• NOW - What is, within and without. From the level of a normal state of human consciousness, this extremely short present point in time as opposed to the long past or long future.

              OR - now is non-time, existing from the level of a natural state of human consciousness. One long field of now.

             Spherical time, not linear time.                                                                     

          Now also implies HERE: the space our physical body occupies.            Thus, both the now and here,

                                                                                                                                              is freedom of time and space.

• MYSELF - Defined only by one's own self.
• BEAUTY - That which cannot be defined and where description is preferable--- because when it is attempted to be defined it losses it's unique identity of beauty. Beauty inspires a feeling of unconditional love (free as opposed to conditional and sufficating), deep happiness, and peaceful awe. Being aware of beauty's indefinable nature, the Buddha once held up a flower and said nothing. This was known as the "Flower Sermon." Yielding to the wisdom of the flower, he let the flower speak for itself in it's own silent language.
• WONDER - Something so beautiful and so inspiring, that one is happily content to simply not desire understanding it, letting it be what it is. Conversely, something so beautiful and inspiring that one is happily motivated to understand it and reflect its beauty in expressing it. Deep appreciation of beauty and what is. Wonder inspires a joyful feeling that there is always more to know and feel.  (Example...The universe is so vast in both it's bigness and smallness!)
• LOVE - That glowing feeling in the heart of you of connection to another, yourself, all life, all. The action of connection to an individual life. Freely accepting all individual life as it is. Thus, leaving one with the feeling of integration, not separation. The compassionate feeling that what is on the outside of you is on the inside of you as well. That which brings deep happiness.
• COMFORT - Fulfillment of physical and non-physical needs. Painlessness. Frictionlessness. Stresslessness. No resistance. Subjective balance. Also, relief from any painful imbalance by it's opposite.  (v. to comfort) The action of nurturing and loving.
• RESPECT - Valuing one's (self and all other individual life) innate unique quality.
  Valuing/allowing all individual life as it is. Valuing all free will choice as it is, where applicable. Also, negative respect, is being deferential to a higher authority in a hierarchy.
• HONOR - Valuing one's (self and all other individual life) acquired unique quality. To esteem highly. A privileged feeling.
• FREEDOM - The absence of, or immunity from, any external  control, restraint, or pain, as well as the absence of oneself allowing that control internally. Not painfully bound by one's (self or others) habits/compulsions. The paradoxical situation of being one self in the presence of another/group, or two selves (i.e. you and them). Not co-dependence. but in-dependence ( i.e. dependence on oneself...flexibly). Not determined by anything beyond it's own nature or being and not allowing the existence of that determination. No limit on thought, feeling, or will. A right. Always having a choice. The ability and right to be oneself.
• AWARENESS - Life. Consciousness. Light of consciousness within life. (Our sentient nature, i.e. self-awareness, is what makes human beings, and other life, distinct from non-sentient life.) Feeling and/or knowing the presence of something or someone with any of your five, or more, senses. Awareness is the activity of observing your thoughts/feelings. Being that the activity of observing cannot exist without the two ingredients of the observer and the observed (or you and this screen), awareness contains the three ingredients of the:

1) obserER

2) observED

3) observING

Therefore, awareness seems to be the non-physical activity of observING yet containing the physical observER and observED. (Some people might call this the Holy Trinity.)

• FORGIVENESS - To give for others and for yourself unconditionally loving, non-judgmental thoughts. Choosing to see all individual life, including yourself, as beautiful, no matter what has/is happened/ing to you.  (This can be, rightfully, extremely difficult for us humans to do. Thus the phrase "would you rather be right or happy" seems to be appropriate. Forgiveness, therefore, encompasses happiness, not rightness.) Forgiveness is also a helpful tool of time that washes any mental and/or emotional past and/or future "dirt," leaving only a clean, now moment. In other words, forgiveness brings you into the present moment.

• PEACE - Feeling certain of who you are.

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