Truth about giving and receiving. Even sea monkeys know there can be an excess of gratitude.
“Where sea-monkey’s swim in the present, distinctions become cloudy. Regardless of how long your feelers are, the truth about giving and receiving are the first to dissolve.
The currents seem strong, yet nothing’s going anywhere.
Transfers of love plankton, spirulina gratitude, and algae trinkets happen only in time. Oceans don’t ‘give’ anything to you, and what you perceive as ‘given’ is already in your claspers. It’s a part of your extendoskeleton… you just haven’t realized it.”
Consideration
Those that insist others ‘provide thanks’ in open do so to reinforce their beliefs. This comes from a submarined fear… for if they cease to make public display, their ‘god’ may not recognize them. Yet, any ‘god’ that can’t sense ‘gratitude’ is no god at all. It’s the tragic god that asks to be thanked. A worse fate is blossomed if their peers were to cease seeing them as ‘spiritual, in-tune, and soulful.’
Being self-compelled to publicly acknowledge ‘gratitudes’ reveals a belief that one is separate from an apparent ‘creator’.
What oft has the fragrance of ‘gratitude’ is but a reflection of ego’s attempt to ‘be on the right side’, ‘feel spiritual’. Yet, in speaking gratitude, most lose presence, massaging their gratitude in un-present thought. Here, pharisees, phonies, and the spiritually well-dressed get their reward.
Giving thanks in private is grounding, while not needing to see it exhibited in others keeps one grounded. Appreciation’s a place where the notion of ‘thanking’ morphs into the full-body knowing that real ‘gratitude’ is a feeling, a state of being, and a dissolving of the transitory distinctions we make between us and them, creation and creator, me and you, earth and sky, lungs and air, eyes and light, gravity and ground.
The freedom to flow is vivid gratitude, the state of what we are.
The level of your presence is the ‘prayer of gratitude’ you’ve been seeking.
Personal joy-based gratitude drives fear out of the non-present dream we call ‘future’.
Gratitude guides us to the present, unless we’re standing in overtures and sublimely stroking our ego-selves.
Self-examination
Inquire of oneself if you're publicly displaying too much gratitude for some particular reason.