Gratitute

[Thorsten Fuzzi]

Hi, all!

Life is an incomprehensible gift. Let's get a shared gratitude list going.

Only rules: Complete honesty—don't try to impress or one-up each other but only refer to something that is actually here and here right now, inside or outside yourself.

[Thorsten Fuzzi]

1. I am grateful that I even looked into this forum after many months and had this idea.
2. I am grateful for a profound heart-opening this morning, right at the border of deep sleep and dream state. I remembered myself. I saw what I had done to me and to others by clinging to this ridiculous little self—and then even blamed others for my own suffering! I'm sorry. I am grateful for the chance to not do this anymore.
3. I am grateful for the gorgeous nature that surrounds my hometown of Vienna, Austria.
4. I am grateful for a good meal that I've had today and enough money to buy high-quality food.
5. I am grateful for an increasing self-love and dissolution of the inacceptance and hate for my body and especially balding head.
6. I am grateful for an incredible 4-year-old daughter and a fantastic relationship with her that's still just getting better the more the both of us mature into it. The ups and downs we've had so far only feel like more firewood for the flame of our love.
7. I am grateful for the air that I'm breathing and the plants and algae that exhaled the oxygen that supports my body.
8. I am grateful for a sharp and creative mind that's not so neurotic anymore as it has been for most of my life.
9. I am grateful for Leo. I watched you in my early 20s, profited, but thought you seemed so arrogant and premature about the insight you claimed as your own and the way you communicated it to your assumed listener, so I stopped. Today, I see you as a human being, and a beautiful one. I don't judge you. I love you. Thank you for everything and especially for making me take nonduality seriously at an early age. There are no words for how much this was and is worth.
10. I am grateful for a flourishing and successful business in consciousness work that is unfathomably more fulfilling than what I had believed to be the expression of my authentic life purpose for the longest time.

Edited August 17 by Thorsten Fuzzi

[Princess Arabia]

I used to believe in this notion of gratitude, but I don't anymore. I use the word thankful. To be grateful for, imo, suggests one isn't worthy and should be grateful that something is being handed to you or that such and such is happening. Being thankful, on the other hand, is saying you are here and are thankful to be here and whatever arises, is simply what's meant to be and I'm thankful for it's existence. I will thank the sun for shining, not be grateful that the sun shines. That goes for everything else I'm thankful for.