Gratitude but to whom

[Night Owl]

I find it is sometimes useful to practice gratitude towards positive and negative situations and people. For exemple it is natural to be grateful for someone that made you smile or made you happy today. But it is a lot less intuitive to think about being grateful for those who have hurt you, stressed you, made your day bitter. But I think it is nevertheless important to think about it because those people and situations help you grow and be stronger. So there is value in being grateful for all sorts of things. And without the external, this growth would be impossible. It is the illusion of seperation that makes movement and improvement possible. That is in a way why all paths leads to the creator. You just have to be willing to see the love and the creator behind all things, even external things. I think what is important to realize about the illusion is mostly that the external is a reflection of the internal, not that the external is inexistant or false. By this realization you open your inner self to all that it contains instead of restraining it your current awareness of what you think it contains.