Gratitude is the recognition that you have what you desire or something that you wanted. I am grateful for my job (because I have one). I am grateful for my mate (because I have one). I am grateful for relationships (because I have them). I am grateful because they are working for me (because they express physically what or who I am). I am grateful for these things (because they are not working for me) and they are pointing me in a different direction.

All things are physical expressions of your own current thoughts about whom and what you are in relationship to everything else. However, they are empty things unless you attach meaning to them. The real truth about them is that you have none of them, you are simply experiencing them. Things can't make you happy for instance. You create things because they are an expression of your current thoughts. You cannot be happy, you can only experience it and the "things" in you life are mirrors which reflect back to your experience of "happiness".

To say that someone made you angry is incorrect. At some level you thought about anger first and then you created the experience of anger through a relationship with another aspect of yourself; the other one! You are always experiencing your thoughts as physical manifestations. And you are doing it alone. No one else exists but you. You are always interacting with yourself. You cannot do for another or unto another, because there is no other. You can never give or do a thing selflessly because you always do it for, and to yourself.

When you give to another or take from another; you are giving or taking from yourself. The only reason this is working is because you believe otherwise; you have forgotten who and what you truly are. You are the creator, and you are creating within your own awareness of the things you imagine within yourself.

Living is a verb; it is what you are experiencing. You are life experiencing; you are not a thing - doing. You are always experiencing this or that even if it is nothing.

When you are victimizing you are also having the experience of being a victim. Neither one of these actions can occur unless you choose to experience them both at the same time.

In order to clap your hands together; your one hand has to agree to be move to the other, they are both doing it in an experience that has already been imagined in the future by the mind and now experienced in the past. Doing is both imagined and experienced by the same mind. Neither hand will experience clapping; it is the mind that experiences the result of what it has created or imagined.

If you are the one mind that experiences all things as this or that; then what is the only thing that "I" (as everything that is) can give to a world which seems to be working autonomously and separate from the mind that created it? What would I give to myself that would make the whole experience complete (and for that matter-tolerable)? How can I experience the hands clapping together and experience being the hands at the same time? To see the bigger picture rather than knowing myself as a left or right hand; I would have to take responsibility for the action knowing that it has purpose and was created by myself for my purpose only. I am the hands and the mind; I am the creator and the co-creators-experiencing the experience of experiencing. To know clapping is not experiencing it. To be the objects which create clapping (hands) leaves you in another imagined state of victimhood or victimizing with little sense of the overall experience or responsibility. An awareness of the whole picture brings purpose and fulfillment to the experience.

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