Meditation for Thursday July 10, 2025
Last week we reflected on how gratefulness is important to our meditation practice. This week we take- up from where we left off to consider how ‘connectedness’ is related to being grateful and how it benefits both ourselves and others.
Let the poet John Ruskin* help us….
“You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless,
and the honest desire to help other people,
will, in the quickest and most delicate way improve yourself.”
Author Charlene Spretnak* expressed the idea of connectedness this way:-
“The boundary between us and other people and between ourselves and nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.”
Christ instructed his followers:…
“As you have done it unto the least among us, you have done it to me.” *
This is a brilliant and robust expression of our connectedness.
When we open our hearts to being grateful, when we choose to share gratitude, we begin to see how quickly it grows. We begin to understand, once gratitude opens the door, that we are all connected.
So, as we meditate, we do so for ourselves but also for the benefit of others
Meditation
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- Poet John Ruskin, Polymath 1819-1900.
- Author Charlene Spretnak…”The Resurgence of the Real,” Pub: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
- Matthew 25:40.
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