Happy Thanksgiving
Giving thanks for what I am.
Given that it’s Thanksgiving Day today, gratitude seems like an important feeling to consider.
On this day, we are often encouraged to give thanks for what we have (food, family, friends, wealth, success, etc.). In other words, we are conditioned to feel gratitude for material things.
The problem with that, as I see it, is that material things all exist within the dream of life and can be taken away or lost. They are, by definition, temporary and conditional. And, while there is nothing wrong with feeling grateful for these things, they are all fleeting. They come and go in our lives and our relationship with them can change at any moment.
It seems to me that we would all be better off being thankful for what we are and how we are made.
With this in mind, I am so very grateful for the fact that I have the ability to create any world that I choose at any moment. I am incredibly thankful that I came into this world with the most powerful projector in the universe - my mind. With it, I can create an experience of heaven or hell. I can use it to create peace, love, well-being, and gratitude for myself and for others. I can also use it to create an experience of strife, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction.
What an absolutely amazing tool!
I am also incredibly grateful for the fact that I have been given a glimpse of how the system really works - from the inside out. Without this understanding, I would still be drifting along in life, convinced that my experience of life was caused by an apparently crazy, mixed up external world. I would still be thinking that my well-being was dependent upon my situations, circumstances, and other people. I would continue to create hell for myself and not know that I was the one creating it.
My only wish is that you, too, catch a glimpse of your true nature. Just for a moment, I hope that you see what an amazing creative tool you were born with. I wish that you could see that you are the one creating your experience of life moment to moment. I wish that you, too, could understand that it’s all an inside job.
Whatever experience you are having, you are the one creating it.
So…this Thanksgiving, I am giving thanks not for what I have, but what I am.