32: Gratitude is having faith in existence
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Whether you accept it or not, Existence is taking care of you and all you need to do is place your faith in it and do your duty with gratitude. You will then be showered upon by Existence. We are simply not ready to place our trust on Existence! The very quality of trusting the universe in your being will make you live like God on earth!
If we consciously feel a sense of continued gratitude towards the cosmic energy, we will be able to feel ourselves being take care of it in its very lap. We will feel ourselves being cradled by this energy, like a child is by the mother. Whether you accept it or not, this is the truth.
You have to just become gratitude! The best way to become gratitude is to learn to enjoy without a reason. Enjoy everything that you see, everything that you hear, and everything that you do, with the supreme confidence that Existence is taking care. Life will then simply transform in front of your eyes and you will be overflowing all the time because you are always enjoying it. Learn to enjoy life without questioning, although I don't mean that you should drop all your work and only enjoy all the time. You need to work, no doubt. No one is going to give you everything if you only enjoy. I am only saying don't look for reasons to enjoy, that's all. Simply enjoy everything without questioning. Let enjoying become your very nature, and then gratitude will become you very being.
Existence showers. If you choose to enjoy it, you will. It is purely your choice. You choose wrongly and then complain or blame someone else. Remember, no one is responsible for anything that happens to you. Everything is a conscious choice that you make unconsciously. Because of the lack of awareness in you, you make unconscious and monotonous decisions and land up complaining about life.
Remember heaven and hell are not geographical locations in the outside world. You create them within yourself. The moment you lose trust over Existence, you alienate yourself from it and carry hell with you wherever you go.
Just remember - try living with gratitude and watch the miracles happen. Existence gives, if you are ready to receive without a question, with just a brimming heart.