gratitude

As a person who really struggles with gratitude and all of the connections it implies, this take on it really resonated with me. Of course, it is from the inimitable David Whyte, whose Consolations are words I keep coming back to.

I hope you find some gifts that make you aware or grateful--Happy Sunday!

“Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us. Gratitude is not necessarily something that is shown after the event, it is the deep, a-priori state of attention that shows we understand and are equal to the gifted nature of life.”
– David Whyte