God promptly fulfils prayers made with spiritual emotion like ‘God please look after my spiritual growth, please tell me what my next step should be, You only guide me’. 2.
Gratitude expressed only in words is superficial gratitude. And 3 steps to improving your gratitude immediately.
When you feel good for the little things – the taste of coffee in the morning, cool breeze flowing on your face, the watchman smiling through his sleepless eyes – you realize that this world is a miracle.
The official website of the Baha'i Faith is:Sign up for our newsletter and get all our latest content,Wonderful Makeena, Thanks for this helpful and illuminating perspective on gratitude.
He must observe and see what is the will of God and act accordingly. This way he learns where he must work to shed his base self of personality defects and has a greater understanding and awareness of his qualities.
But our understanding of what creates happiness is limited by the understanding we as feeble individuals attain. This is mere usage, just as when we meet, receive a gift and say thank you, speaking the words without significance. Practicing gratitude daily helps us to realize all the possibilities of our lives.The greatest spiritual benefit of gratitude is that by living from this space, we become less focused on ourselves and those things we may feel like we are drowning in. Still for our spiritual progress, it is important that we do make the effort to inculcate the habit of paying gratitude in us. There is a cordial thanksgiving, too, which expresses itself in the deeds and actions of man when his heart is filled with gratitude. Far from a self-help treatise, this devotional collection of 52 short chapters explores gratitude as a means of understanding God's grace." Gratitude is the key. I have often heard it said that gratitude is the currency of any volunteer organization and since we are all volunteers in this beautiful Garden of God, to be grateful to the Gardener seems simple.
Many who offer thanks to God are of this type; their spirits and hearts unconscious of thanksgiving. Simply keeping in mind what good I have been offered is not necessarily the deepest form of gratitude, the same way saying thank you does not equate truly feeling thankful:Thankfulness is of various kinds. We are always in a state of creation in our own lives.
When he experienceth severe trials and hardships, then his nature will recoil and he will desire the eternal realm—a realm which is sanctified from all afflictions and calamities. Instead, these beautiful words: "Whatsoever he wishes to do must be in harmony with the good pleasure of God. Accordingly he feels gratitude to God in all situations good or bad as he feels God’s subtle-hand in his life presenting him with situations and also providing him with the capability to grasp the spiritual lessons and learning.In most cases this gratitude is directed to one’s spiritual guide or Guru. Through this, you can start opening your mind to the possibilities or solutions that you need.Find gratitude in the small things. These spiritual susceptibilities are ideal thanksgiving.
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