Thursday, September 10, 2009

Appreciation

At the subtle levels, this virtue of the heart is focused on a specific awareness
that God surrounds our fellow beings as a field of consciousness and that
this consciousness unifies us. If we are unified, it follows that we operate as a
collective consciousness at some deeper level, and in this place, we share a
common purpose that is supremely vital, and yet mysterious, dynamic and uncertain.


This awareness, or even belief, shifts our focus from the small details of our
personal life to the vision of our purpose as a species. At a more practical level,
appreciation expresses itself in the small gestures of gratitude that support relationship
loyalty and bonding. The deeper levels of appreciation make the relatively surface level
expressions genuine because they stem from the frequencies of soul instead of the
motives of the ego or mind.


Yet, humanity still does not foster this heart virtue. Appreciation is gratitude. And gratitude, genuinely expressed, is Love in Motion. Let us appreciate, and show gratitude, for the One-ness of All.

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