I'm moderator of a Facebook group called Gratitude Train. I've started using it as a way of expressing gratitude to loved ones from my childhood as well as other people in my daily life who I otherwise don't have the opportunity to thank face-to-face because they're extremely busy.
I believe that being grateful for things and people in this life supports the likelihood of meeting with them again in future lives. Sometimes as I walk to the supermarket I imagine I've stepped out of a time machine and it's already the year 5000 AD. I don't have to wonder what it might be like to be reborn after death, because after all here I am!
"How do you keep patience going? How do you keep persistence going? By having a good sense of humor about what’s happening to you in the path and having an infinite good humor that can keep you going. This is the attitude that allows you to say, “Whoops, another mistake! – Well, try again! Another mistake? Try again!” It’s that ability to step back from yourself a bit to see what you’re doing and not to be so in to a particular state of mind or in to a particular identity that you can’t let it go." ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Infinite Good Humor"
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