#279 Freedom to Choose: Gratitude - or - Unhappiness

     “to practice being grateful to everyone is to train in a profound understanding. It is to cultivate every day this sense of gratitude, the happiest of all attitudes. Unhappiness and gratitude simply cannot exist in the same moment. If you feel grateful, you are a happy person. If you feel grateful for what is possible for you in this moment, no matter what your challenges are, if you feel grateful that you are alive at all, that you can think, that you can feel, that you can stand, sit, walk, talk – if you feel grateful, you are happy and you maximize your chances for well-being and for sharing happiness with others.”                Norman Fischer, Shambhala Sun, March 2013