gratitude
 
It is not just the gratitude that I am better off that some--most--people in world.  It is the gratitude that just rises up on my unawares, as well as the gratitude that I practice when I get cranky and negative.
 
 
 
 
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
 
 
 
In whatever condition and conditioning we find ourselves, whether we have just won the lottery or discovered we have only a year to live, there is a basic, even essential gratitude contemplation that is always appropriate. p.98
And so gratitude it shall be today for my conscious practice.  I shall write it on a card and have it before me all day.  I have four hours of driving to a middling tense meeting this morning and then a three or four hour meeting that I have have a lot of effort on the table for others to use, revise, criticize and reject.  
 
Gratitude.
 
And Compassion.
 
We shall see.