Mental Gratitude
The gratefulness of the mind for what makes it progress.
There is nothing which gives you a joy equal to that of gratitude. One hears a bird sing, sees a lovely flower, looks at a little child, observes an act of generosity, reads a beautiful sentence, looks at the setting sun, no matter what, suddenly this comes upon you, this kind of emotion—indeed so deep, so intense—that the world manifests the Divine, that there is something behind the world which is the Divine.
The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956: 25 January 1956
And yet, of all movements, the one that gives perhaps the most joy—an unalloyed joy, untainted by that egoism—is spontaneous gratitude.
It is something very special. It isn't love, it isn't self-offering… It's a very FULL joy. Very full.
It is a very special vibration unlike anything other than itself. It is something that widens you, that fills you—that is so fervent!
It is certainly, of all the movements within the reach of human consciousness, the one that draws you the most out of your ego…
When you can enter that vibration in its purity, you realize immediately that it has the same quality as the vibration of Love: it is directionless…
Ultimately, gratitude is only a very slightly colored hue of the essential Vibration of Love.
The Mother, Mother's Agenda: December 21, 1963
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