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Daily Question, December 16

How does gratefulness help me feel more connected to others?

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    gratefulness helps me to be thankful for others and what they do for me

  • reality

    As life’s relation, I, who doesn’t exist, can’t be grateful without an other who does or doesn’t exist; a Sun, Moon, river of life, etc..

  • GCharlotte

    Being grateful is a great form of thanks for what I have and bestowed valueing the gifts in my life that leads to joy and this joy reflects.

  • Malag

    The things I am grateful for are usually what I share with others eg the air I breathe, being alive, feeling the sun on my face. That sense of collective sharing makes me feel more connected. Also gratefulness makes for a softer heart and a softer heart is a path to deeper connections with others. At a deeper level still I think is the dissolving of the me/other separation entirely but that’s a work in progress.

  • Linda

    I know that all I have been given/earned is due to the efforts of many others. I gratefully thank them daily, starting with my father.

  • Mica

    Gratefulness is greater than any negative thoughts I have about one of my dear ones, and I can remember my gratitude when negative thoughts arise. Then I can use Byron Katie’s “The Work” to turn my thinking around – I worry that my dear one is doing something I’d disapprove of – but wait! Maybe they’re not!!

  • Ann

    When resting in a feeling of deeply enfolding gratefulness, Oneness is.

  • Tom Denham

    Gratefulness creates community everywhere it appears. I am drawn to people who are grateful and I draw people to me when I am grateful. I don’t really have a thought about the mechanism of attraction, but I have seen it working.

  • Darren

    Gratefulness helps me feel like I’m not alone in the world. I’m here in this existence only through the aid of others (my parents, family members, friends, wife), yet sometimes I forget that. I have this urge to do things myself and take credit for thing myself. Gratefulness helps me centre myself with many bridges connecting to others.

  • Carla

    Gratefulness reminds me I’m not alone & I am aware of my interdependence not in a clingy way, but open hands to help others over the bridges & chasms of life

  • Ed Schulte

    There is a pray which contains within it the words‘”…enlighten our minds to know you as the truth.
    Clear our hearts to reflect your love towards you and all human beings…”
    When ever the meaning of those words is activated “connected”-ness arrises and grateful-ness flows!

  • Michele

    Gratefulness helps me feel more connected to others by sharing on this website. Gratefulness is a personal feeling. Feeling connected to others is nice but not necessarily needed.

  • Mark Piper

    It would seem gratefulness is most obvious to me, when I’m thanking someone (in person or otherwise) for something they did or said that involved me. I suppose gratefulness is one way to nourish our interpersonal relationships and neighborliness.

  • when I follow all the big and little threads that connect me to others, when I follow them to where they meet, there is only a dynamic coming together of infinite impulses. just to acknowledge this mysterium is an expression of gratitude. it’s the smile of the stranger that we answer without thinking, just smiling back. it’s the hand of the friend who reaches out to us, that we happily grab. it’s the light in all its forms that we are eager to follow… ?️✨ just came across an article...

    when I follow all the big and little threads that connect me to others, when I follow them to where they meet, there is only a dynamic coming together of infinite impulses. just to acknowledge this mysterium is an expression of gratitude. it’s the smile of the stranger that we answer without thinking, just smiling back. it’s the hand of the friend who reaches out to us, that we happily grab. it’s the light in all its forms that we are eager to follow… ?️✨
    just came across an article by Zen teacher Norman Fisher and would like to quote him here: ‘the only thing real is connection’ – isn’t this lovely ??

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  • Sarah

    When I see others going through trials and tribulations similar to what I’ve experienced, I am especially grateful. I am able to help people by relaying how I was able to get to the other side. The death of my husband, a job loss, cancer diagnosis…forever grateful I can help other people, and give them hope.

  • Toby

    I think that gratefulness is the opposite of resentment for me. When I fall into resentment, it feels like me against the world, I become an angry, cut-off little island. Gratefulness lets me see – or rather remember – how dependent I am on others, on the world, on the whole interconnected universe for absolutely everything.

  • Anneclaire

    Well, naturally we are connected. It is the emotional reactivity or the intellectual building of walls that disconnects us. Gratitude helps me to be in touch with the reality of our connectedness.

  • Kevin

    Simply put, I am grateful for other people in my life, period. I can’t imagine being alive, let alone living in a world and in a place, where there are no people.

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