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OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

a friend emailed me this today. at those times when the monkey mind

messes with me and really it helps me to just thank KALI MA for ALL.

 

THANK YOU

By Oprah Winfrey

 

I live in the space of thankfulness - and I have been rewarded a

million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small

things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.

That's because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the

goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities,

relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful

no matter what happened in my life. "Say thank you!" Those words

from my friend and mentor Maya Angelou turned my life around. One

day about ten years ago, I was sitting in my bathroom with the door

closed and the toilet lid down, booing and a hooing on the phone so

uncontrollably that I was incoherent. "Stop it! Stop it right now and

say thank you!" Maya chided. "But - you don't understand," I sobbed.

 

To this day, I can't remember what it was that had me so far gone,

which only proves the point Maya was trying to make. "I do

understand," she told me. "I want to hear you say it now. Out loud."

'Thank you.'" Tentatively, I repeated it: "Thank you - but what am I

saying thank you for?" "You're saying thank you," Maya said,

"because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever

the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because

you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in

the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no

problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say

thank you!"

 

So I did - and still do. Only now I do it every day. I kept a

gratitude journal, as Sarah Ban Breathnach suggests in Simple

Abundance, list at

least five things that I'm grateful for. My list includes small

pleasures: the feel of Kentucky bluegrass under my feet (like damp

silk); a walk in the woods with all nine of my dogs and my cocker

spaniel Sophie trying to keep up; cooking fried green tomatoes with

Stedman and eating them while they're hot; reading a good book and

knowing another awaits. My thank-you list also includes things too

important to take for granted: an "okay" mammogram, friends who love

me, 25 years at the same job (and loving it more than the first day I

started), a chance to share my vision for a better life, staying

centered, having financial security. I won't kid you, having money for

all the things I want is a blessing. But as I look back over my

journals, which I've kept since I was 15 years old, 99 per cent of

what brought me real joy had nothing to do with money. (It had a lot

to do with food, however.) It's not easy being grateful all the

time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need

of what gratitude can give you: PERSPECTIVE.

 

Just knowing you have that daily list to complete allows you to look

at your day differently, with an awareness of every sweet gesture and

kind thought passed your way. When you learn to say thank you, you see

the world anew. And as Meister Eckhart so eloquently stated: "If the

only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'Thank you God, that

would suffice."

 

JAI MA

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Thank You Eric, for that Excellent Reminder! I always appreciate the insightful and inspirational posts you send our way!

Much Love,

Sanatani

 

ecjensen_us <ecjensen_us > wrote:

OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

a friend emailed me this today. at those times when the monkey mind

messes with me and really it helps me to just thank KALI MA for ALL.

 

THANK YOU

By Oprah Winfrey

 

I live in the space of thankfulness - and I have been rewarded a

million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small

things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.

That's because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the

goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities,

relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful

no matter what happened in my life. "Say thank you!" Those words

from my friend and mentor Maya Angelou turned my life around. One

day about ten years ago, I was sitting in my bathroom with the door

closed and the toilet lid down, booing and a hooing on the phone so

uncontrollably that I was incoherent. "Stop it! Stop it right now and

say thank you!" Maya chided. "But - you don't understand," I sobbed.

 

To this day, I can't remember what it was that had me so far gone,

which only proves the point Maya was trying to make. "I do

understand," she told me. "I want to hear you say it now. Out loud."

'Thank you.'" Tentatively, I repeated it: "Thank you - but what am I

saying thank you for?You're saying thank you," Maya said,

"because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever

the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because

you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in

the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no

problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say

thank you!"

 

So I did - and still do. Only now I do it every day. I kept a

gratitude journal, as Sarah Ban Breathnach suggests in Simple

Abundance, list at

least five things that I'm grateful for. My list includes small

pleasures: the feel of Kentucky bluegrass under my feet (like damp

silk); a walk in the woods with all nine of my dogs and my cocker

spaniel Sophie trying to keep up; cooking fried green tomatoes with

Stedman and eating them while they're hot; reading a good book and

knowing another awaits. My thank-you list also includes things too

important to take for granted: an "okay" mammogram, friends who love

me, 25 years at the same job (and loving it more than the first day I

started), a chance to share my vision for a better life, staying

centered, having financial security. I won't kid you, having money for

all the things I want is a blessing. But as I look back over my

journals, which I've kept since I was 15 years old, 99 per cent of

what brought me real joy had nothing to do with money. (It had a lot

to do with food, however.) It's not easy being grateful all the

time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need

of what gratitude can give you: PERSPECTIVE.

 

Just knowing you have that daily list to complete allows you to look

at your day differently, with an awareness of every sweet gesture and

kind thought passed your way. When you learn to say thank you, you see

the world anew. And as Meister Eckhart so eloquently stated: "If the

only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'Thank you God, that

would suffice."

 

JAI MA

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