Everybody is asking about what techniques should they use in order to a state where peace is possible. In order to get to a state where the things that we talk about become accessible. How does one go about leaving the chaotic world and entering into the world of reality, the world of God’s qualities? Well, it’s an important question and the knowledge of what to do and how to do it is important knowledge. It’s something we need to know how to do and it’s something that we actually have to do. You can’t know how to do it until you do it. And therein lies the conumdrum. You can talk about it, but if you don’t do it, you don’t really know how to do it, you just know how to talk about it. And most of us know that in our modern world mostly we talk about things, we don’t do thing.
Let’s take gratitude. Gratitude is one of Allah’s qualities. Gratitude is one of the pathways to the entrance of reality. Let’s give some deep thought to what gratitude is. It means to be thankful in a profound way. “Allah, thank You for creating the world for me!”
You see, Allah created the world for each of us. He filled it with all the wonders that are within it. “Allah, thank You for all the wonders that You’ve created within the world for me!” He created the air and the water. “Allah, thank You for the air that You’ve created for me! Thank You for the water that You’ve created for me! Thank You for the body that You’ve created for me and for the joy that I capable of finding in this existence! Thank You for putting me here as your most eloquent creation, and thank You for supplying me the needs that this physical form has! Thank You for my creation! Thank You for wanting to create me and allow me to humbly prostrate before You in recognition of the gifts that You have given me, of the gifts that You have showered upon me and every other human in this creation. Let me not be one of the ones who takes for granted what You have done for us. Let me not be one of the ones that scoffs at what You have done for us, that doesn’t realize the great mercy and compassion that You have showered on this being and the beings like me so that we could comprehend the nature of our existence and begin to attempt to comprehend You. We have been put here to know You and we thank you for that oppportunity and we pray that we will not squander this opportunity that you have given to us and we will stay on the straight path towards you without deviating into the chaos and the magnetic pulls and the sparkles that try to distract us from that path towards you. We ask for the equilibrium to know the truth, to know reality and to know illusion and how it is not reality. It takes this kind of a focus in order to understand where peace comes from. It takes this kind of a focus to understand where gratitude comes from. It takes this kind of a one-pointed consciousness that looks at our existence and understands that everything that we know, that we do, that we enviion, that we sing and dance about is because of this great gift that our Lord has given to us. This gift of life. After He has given us all the gifts that lie within the world, what else has He given us? He has given us of Himself…
