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street. The second level of gratitude is to be able to appreciate what you have even after a great loss.
     ECKHART TOLLE
    Being grateful is another essential part of living in connectedness with the heart; it comes naturally.
     NEALE DONALD WALSCH
    Gratitude is an attitude that changes everything. So I tell people that if you really want to use gratitude powerfully, use it even before, not just after, any particular event.
     JOE DISPENZA
    We usually give thanks for things when they’ve already happened. So in a sense, we’ve been hypnotized and conditioned into believing that we need a reason for joy, that we need a reason for gratitude.
    Allow yourself to be grateful. Your life will shift into a larger, more positive dimension.
     MARCI SHIMOFF
    The brain scans of people who are experiencing a state of unconditional love show that there’s actually greater brain activity, that they’re more intelligent, that you become more creative. When you’re feeling more gratitude or you’re forgiving people, that’s increasing your intelligence.
    To increase your awareness of everything that merits gratitude and to make yourself more receptive to the beautiful and loving things in life, keep a gratitude diary. Start each day by writing down a minimum of five things you are grateful for. People who regularly record what they are grateful for are happier than others—and their happiness lasts. Keeping a gratitude diary works even better than therapy or antidepressant drugs.
     HOWARD MARTIN
    It’s very, very simple: the more we appreciate, the more we gain. Appreciation is a heart-related feeling. It requires access to theintelligence of the heart to appreciate or to have gratitude, especially when things don’t go your way. To find something in those times when life is tough, to appreciate something about them or appreciate something about something else, it begins to shift the energies very, very quickly so that you come into another level of buoyancy that rises above the problem. And in doing so, you can then see into it. You can then find ways to deal with it.
    With the second level of gratitude, you give thanks even in the face of major disappointments, like the breakdown of a love affair, the loss of a job, and even in the face of great sadness or tragedy, like the death of a loved one. This gratitude helps you pave the way for a new life. Even out of the worst thing that ever happened to you—an illness or disability or terrible loss—eventually can come new understanding, new connections, and relationships.
     RUEDIGER SCHACHE
    If you express yourself in appreciation or in gratitude, it’s like sending love to God, sending love out in the universe. Gratitude is opening the heart.
     PAULO COELHO
    At the end of the day, when your heart is open, there is this energy of love that fulfills everything.
     MICHAEL BECKWITH
    When you begin to live at that level, the universe responds to that field, and then more and more and more things to be grateful for show up out of nothing.
    There is love in everyone, always waiting for the moment it can free itself, like a butterfly from its cocoon. You release love within yourself by appreciating life and the people around you. That love you send out will come back to you many times over, attracting people, ideas, and events that enrich your life.
    Deep listening requires letting go of our internal argument with the world. We must exhaust ourselves of our assumptions.
    —MARK NEPO
     MARCI SHIMOFF
    That perspective helps us keep our hearts open in a state of love. And living in a state of gratitude, living in the belief that this is a friendly universe changes everything. We move from feeling afraid and challenged to feeling open and looking at life through the eyes of love, through the eyes of the heart.

CONTEMPLATION
    Three Blessings
    In general, we think too much about what goes wrong and not enough about what goes right. To be healthier and happier, we can think more about