“Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.”
“Be sincere in your thoughts,Be pure in your feelings.You will not have to run after happiness.Happiness will run after you.”
“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.”
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
“Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.”
“When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.”