Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment (Eckhart Tolle).
There is a conspiracy a foot to bring you to a point where you are experiencing eternal gratitude for everything you encounter. Everyone and everything you encounter are involved, from the person who cut you off in traffic, to the pile of dog poop you stepped in while walking in the park, to the person in the express line with more than twelve items, to the stranger who smiled at you on the street. Their aim is to remind you that all of your suffering is self created through your identification with thoughts. Thoughts are simply electrical impulses that occur in the brain and what happens in our lives is neither bad nor good until they are interpreted through thought.
All of our emotions are reflections of what we are thinking at the time. Frustration, anger, resentment and fear all happen as a result of our thoughts about a situation, not as a result of the situation itself. This is what our coconspirators are trying to tell us. If we want to be free of negativity, we can learn a great deal from them.
When we treat everyone we come in contact with as a noble messenger who is trying to protect us from our thoughts, we enable the conspiracy to work more effectively rather than fight it. Gratitude is the natural outcome. We then feel like giving thanks to all of those around us who have helped us on our journey, which is ultimately everyone.
Our free will enables us to choose whether to identify with our thoughts and take them to be the absolute truth, or to choose to realize that they are not who we are. Feeling gratitude is a choice we can make as well as our natural state of being concealed behind a layer of thought, which is why this time of year is so valuable. It reminds us to set aside trivial matters and connect with that state of gratitude that is in us all. As for me, I am grateful for the role you play in the conspiracy to bring about my realization and show my thanks by doing the same for you.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Trey
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Trey,
Perhaps you have heard this story, but I wanted to share it with you as what you wrote reminded me of it. It is from a talk given by Ram Dass at the Conscious Aging Conference held by Omega Institute in the 90's.
An old farmer had one horse, and one day it up and ran off.
His neighbor came over and said, "Oh, that is terrible that your one horse has run off!"
The old Farmer said, "You never know."
The next day the horse returned with 3 other horses.
The neighbor came over and said, "Oh that is so wonderful that your horse returned with three more horses!"
The old farmer said, "You never know."
The next day, the farmers son was thrown trying to break one of the new horses and broke his leg.
The neighbor came over and said, "Oh that is so terrible about your son breaking his leg!"
The old farmer said, "You never know."
A week later, the Cosak army came through and pressed all of the young men of the village into service except the farmers son, who they didn't take because of his broken leg.
The neighbor came over and said, "That is so wonderful that your son didn't have to go to war!"
And the old farmer said, (You guessed it) "You never know!"
It's all in what we think is happening, which may not be what is happening at all.
Thanks for including me in your list of recipients. I really appreciate what you send.
Blessings on this wonderful day. Hope you got to enjoy it with your wonderful family.
Love,
Penny
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