Appreciation

What is it that you do that is so unique?
What is it that we as human beings do really, really well?

The amazing thing is that we actually don’t think like that. We don’t actually think, “What is my strength? What am I really good at? “And I am not just talking about human beings as a species, but every individual turning to themselves and saying. “What am I really good at?” What is it that you do that is truly unique? Do you know? And one of the things that you are quite capable of doing - and you do it well - is appreciation.

To appreciate. Now, here is this incredible thing called appreciation and most people are not familiar with it. What is it really mean to appreciate it? If we are lost. somebody shows us = “Oh. just go up and turn left and 20 feet that’s the place you want to go.” And we go on. “Thank you, thank you, thank you. We go to a restaurant and the waiter serves us nicely.

To express our gratitude, we leave him a tip. But this power of this appreciation when it is turned toward this existence, for this life, not the things you have in this life but the life itself: the coming and going of this breath; that I am alive; I exist; that I have the capacity to feel; that I have the capacity to understand; that I have the capacity to feel happiness in my life; that I have the capacity to be satisfied in my life; that I have the capacity to understand in my life; that I have the capacity to have the answers in my life.

Then, the appreciation that comes for this life is unique. And this, in my opinion, you, me, all of us do very, very well. Our ability to appreciate is so incredible that it doesn’t need to evolve. It’s there and it’s beautiful.