(Apparently I wrote exactly the same text, only different:
Hopefully I don’t always repeat nonsense
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Gratitude is consciousness
When you’re conscious — you’re grateful
You’re ungrateful when you’re unconscious
You’re unconscious because you don’t want to be conscious
You’re unconscious because you’re busying yourself with everything else (but what’s in front of you)
When you’re unconscious and busying yourself with ideas and goals and plans and achievements — you don’t see what’s in front of you, or inside you
You’re just thinking about that business deal or this person— not about how it FEELS TO BE ALIVE
If you focused on this experience of being alive — you’d instantly feel grateful
Your experience of gratitude is limited to novelty
Our minds are poisoned by notions of improvement and growth and gain and overcoming
Thus numbed from what is real
When you get a new phone you’re grateful for a week
When you break your leg you remember again what a gift it is to walk
Then you’re back to normal
You want to keep that sensation of GRATITUDE by doing gratitude-practises and what-not
ah why?
Gratefulness was your default state
When you were conscious
Calm down
Look around yourself
Look inward
Smile
Look at what you’re experiencing
Look at things and phenomenons which surround you
Look closely
Reflect on the marvel of this world and this life and this existence
Experience it
Please
Be conscious
Be simple
Be simple and conscious, and simply conscious
Simply look around yourself
And let yourself be grateful
And let yourself be loving
And again, let yourself be simple
Just appreciate what’s in front of you, please
And this alone could heal you