Question: What is your perspective on the practice of gratitude?

When we use the word gratitude, we would like you to imagine the vastness of the ocean.  Imagine all of the water that exists on your planet, and recall how it is all connected and how it is teeming with life-from very large to microscopic.

All of this exists as one cohesive connected unit without which there would be no life on your planet.

Imagine then, the  vastness of this-and its fullness and completeness-and while you hold that image in your mind, lay over it the word "gratitude".

In other words, when we use the word gratitude we mean to express an understanding of the vastness, the fullness, and the completeness of your life.

In every moment you can experience a sense of gratitude by simply being present in that moment. There is no "thanks" involved. There simply is complete acknowledgement of What Is. Nothing more, and nothing less.

Question: Why are you teaching us?  What do you get out of it?

We receive simply from our connection with you.  You have so much to give and you don't realize it!

You don't see your connection to All That Is in the same way that we see it-but that doesn't mean that there is less of you to give to the All That Is.

We benefit from an energetic connection with you, just as much as you do from us or from any other being that connects with you energetically.  You are used to thinking of us and other teachers like us as being "greater" than you.  We don't see it that way.

We truly are peers.  We are learning from you.  You give to us.

We're grateful for this experience, and that is something we would like for you to take with you: the ability to think of yourself as just as great as anything else you can imagine in the universe.

You are as important as a star, a planet, a beam of light or a grain of sand.