Awareness is the word.

With awareness, gratitude always comes.

Sometimes I use the word consciousness, but usually I’m speaking of the same thing.

As my consciousness level rises (awareness of self), I am often filled with gratitude. Things that were of critical importance no longer are.

The “problems” never fully go away.
That is what life is, a series of problems to unravel (in the world of “sharp edges and twisted knots”).
But the problems get better.

There is an inner peace I have found and the only path to get there is via awareness of self, as if the path didn’t even exist until the awareness came to illuminate it.

“I was never in danger to begin with.”

What if, no matter what happens “out there,” “I” was never in danger to begin with, at any time?
Even in life’s scariest moments.

That awareness brings a shift of perspective, and returning to internal peace is a shorter journey on the well-illuminated path back to the well.

For this I am grateful.

I love you all, thanks for reading!