Contentment is the highest wealth Gratitude is a word thrown around so easily these days yet we overlook it so often. Gratitude is an attitude but it’s also a muscle, a practice, a feeling, a must-have in one’s life. The first noble Buddhism is that life is suffering. The cause of suffering is craving. Now I don’t want to sound pessimistic and start ranting on the consumeristic society we live in. In some of my previous content, I talked about the vibration of desire. David Hawkins in his map of consciousness has desire as one of the lower levels of consciousness. Desire, craving, yearning is trying to find happiness outside of oneself and that’s the reason why it is on a lower level. Gratitude on the other hand is on a much higher level because it is an appreciation of life. It’s the contentment of our current situation. It’s adding love to the present moment. When we crave we look for faults in life. We look for the lack of what we don’t have and forsake and take for granted what we do have. When we practice gratitude we look for beauty and put the lens and magnify the beauty in our own life. Perspective matter. We lost it. Media and ads trick us with subliminal messages to want more and more. We succumb to peer pressure. Our need to conform coupled with our desire and insecurity put us in an everlasting rat race. Gratitude is the answer. Gratitude is the key. Gratitude is our guardian angel. Gratitude will save us. Gratitude is the best attitude to adopt. Stay put, I will you guys more examples and ways to adopt gratitude in your own life. Gratitude is not only to manifest our desired reality. Gratitude is also for those harder moments in life. The inevitable ups and downs. When you adopt an attitude of gratitude. You’ll have a more general sense of well being but shit still happens because that’s just life. We have no control over life. Life is ephemeral, transient, and fragile. I am not saying that because it’s negative. It is what it is. However, life is more beautiful because of those facts of nature. Because things don’t last we have to care more. Because relationships will end one way or another we have to care more. Because we will get old and die we have to care for our bodies and mind. If we were immortal and could control everything in our external world gratitude would be useless but because the outside is subject to the law of uncertainty, decay, and death we MUST have gratitude. We must stay in the present moment, we must have gratitude for that moment. We have to shine a light on all that is beautiful in life. Shakespeare said that it is no good or bad. Only thinking makes it so. The “good” and the “bad” is always available. Shine more light on the good. When the “bad” happens, there is always a silver lining. Look deeper. When you are sick, be appreciative of the rest of your body that is healthy and look at the sickness as a growing pain because sickness, old age, and death are the greatest teacher and bring the most wisdom. Have perspective, instead of always looking at those who have more and are seemingly happier. Look at those of have less and look and how much you really have and lucky you actually are. You will realize more and more that you are so blessed and lucky.