Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.
~Commentary on Gratitude ~
What you are is formless. When you look about yourself as you experience yourself now, you see form and you say. “That is not me.” When you look at yourself as you experience yourself now, you see form and you say, “That is me.” But in both cases, you are in error, because what you are is formless, so you cannot be identified by what you see in form.
Gratitude, like you, is formless. It cannot be touched, but it can extend. Gratitude takes that which already is and moves it into new existence and new means of expression and experience. In this way too, gratitude is like you.
To understand what you are, you must drop understanding. But to get a glimpse, look at gratitude. Gratitude is a formless force that is much like you, and gratitude works through love because gratitude works through you.
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening # 213
Sit in gratitude.
Sit in stillness.
Do not search your mind
to find that which you are grateful for.
Instead, sit in gratitude.
Sit in stillness.
Let gratitude and stillness,
which come from the Heart,
enlighten the mind
with the message of gratitude.
The Heart knows
what you are truly grateful for.
Listen and accept that.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 211-217 including Commentary on Desire (with 211), Commentary on Gratitude (with 213), Commentary on Happiness (with 215), & Commentary on Experience (with 216)
- Read NTI Collosians 1-4 (No NTI reading on days 211,213,215, or 216).
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p210-214, A Knowing Space.
- Exercise is the What is Constant game. As changes seem to occur in your daily life, ask what is constant? If you are mad at someone now, ask what is constant. What is the same now as it was earlier that morning? Even ask, what is the difference between experience and non-experience?
