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An attitude of gratitude will speed you through your growth and success faster than any amount of hard work can. It is because gratitude completes the cycle of knowing. You cannot fully know what is without knowing what is not. What you want and what you don’t want are opposite sides of the same thing. It is in the moments of absence that you recognize and appreciate the moments of presence. You may hate being separated from your desire, but you’re still dealing with the essence which is the desire.

When you are grateful for what you both like and don’t like, you are released from having to experience what you don’t like. That is because what you don’t like is for the purpose of giving you greater appreciation of what you like. When you resist the experience of what you don’t like, you miss the gift that it has to offer and therefore it will continue to happen again until you realize the good about it. To be truly grateful about a thing is to be grateful for both the experience of it being present as well as absent.

Gratitude completes the cycle of knowing. The feeling of gratitude is the acceptance of something as part of your total and divine nature. The universal mind of all knowing has both the experience of the presence of a thing as well as the absence of it. To be grateful for both experiences is to accept them as part of your all knowing self. It is to embrace all parts of your self and being one with all things. Rejecting the absence of a thing would prevent you from being able to fully appreciate or know its presence.
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The principle of polarity states that all truths are half truths. The way to complete knowing is integration of opposites. As long as you accept the presence of a thing and reject its absence, you are creating a duality. That is why people keep experiencing success and failure, supply and lack, love and loss in alternating or mixed ways all the time. They push forwards while holding back because they’re incomplete in their knowing and being. Transcend duality by realizing that opposite experiences are one.

The purpose of life is evolution of consciousness. We individuated from the universal mind to experience our unique path back to omniscience and totality of being. As we grow in awareness about life, reality and the universe, we know more and more of who we really are as God Consciousness. The divine nature expressed itself as a group of relationships. Love has to be experienced as a relationship. That is why the One individuated into the many. We are all here to know God, to love and embrace all of it.

To be grateful for all things both the good and the bad is to know that all is God and all is ultimately good. To live a life of complete gratitude is to live with the awareness that all things are happening for our highest and greatest good. Complete gratitude is being grateful for the existence of what you like as well as the opposite of it. Contrast is for fullness of experience. Let the poor say you are rich and let the weak say you are strong. It’s in darkness that you know how wonderful and great it is being the light.

You can only leave or transform a situation with love. Love is acceptance and fear is resistance. What you resist persists. Accept it and it plays itself out in a way that is according to your highest good. If it is a person or a thing in your life that isn’t ultimately good for you, it will fulfill its purpose for being around and drop away. People keep repeating the same types of experiences in their lives until the day they stop hating and fighting it, and instead see what the situation holds for them, and heal it with love.

Pain is the resistance to feeling. Those who do not allow themselves to feel because they are afraid it hurts actually end up causing pain because pain is only resistance to feeling. It is not painful to feel anger, sadness or even love. In fact it is liberating to allow yourself to feel the feelings you have when they arise instead of resisting them because of limiting beliefs. Conflicting feeling of resistance creates pain and diseases. When you allow yourself to feel all your emotions and feelings, the pain disappears.

Resistance creates time, acceptance creates miracles. Resisting something does not make it go away. It only prolongs your experience of it until you accept it. The more you resist what you don’t what, the longer it takes before you finally experience what you want. When a person finally surrenders to God and accepts the way things are as alright, all of a sudden it seems that things work out or the manifestation happens faster. You were not meant to struggle. The more you flow, the more effortless it’ll be.

Accepting does not mean agreeing with or even liking. It is simply accepting, allowing, not resisting. If you don’t like something you are experiencing, choose differently. Choosing differently does not require rejecting what you don’t choose. You can accept, allow and not resist what you don’t want by detaching from it. Simply focus on your desire while accepting what you don’t desire. It’s to be contented with the way things are while pursuing all you want. Accept what is while choosing differently if you wish.

Rejoice evermore, give thanks in all things. The more enlightened or evolved in consciousness you are, the more you are aware that all things are ultimately good and one. The more gratitude you would experience in life and you would be in a perpetual state of blissful existence or nirvana. Good things will happen for you a lot faster because you are ahead in your progress of knowing and being. Allowing yourself to experience your feelings or life conditions instead of resisting is the path to joy, life and freedom.[/hidepost]