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What is a gift?


What is a gift? Is it something that offers use, value, or meaning in some form? Could it be anything that gives in these ways and others? What is giving? Is there anything that you encounter that doesn’t give in some way? What if you took the time to stop and notice how everything around you gives in the course of a day? What does the sun give you? What does your breath give you? What do your walls give you? What do your hands give you? What do your eyes and ears give you? What do your food and clothes give you? What do these things give, not only conceptually, but experientially in the given moment? What does music give? What do the people closest to you give? What do strangers give? What does each thought and emotion give? What if every experience was interpreted as a gift? What if even all the fears, doubts, frustrations, and disappointments were seen as gifts in some way? What do they give? What opportunities are hidden within them? What does pain and suffering give? What if you said “Thank you” for everything you encounter, and if any resistance arose you paused to search for the opportunity within it?

What if you viewed all of reality as giving – everything given to you and by you? Is all of life ultimately the interconnected process of giving? How many gifts are you given each day that you take for granted or are completely oblivious to? What portion of those gifts go completely unnoticed? What if you became aware of all of them? What if you don’t really need anything at all, not even life? Is everything that emerges into consciousness anyway given? What are the limitations of your thankfulness? Are they merely self-imposed? Where is the boundary between thankfulness and its absence? When are you unable, or lose the capacity, to be thankful for something? Is there an upper limit to them, or does the capacity for thankfulness extend infinitely? Is it possible to experience infinite gratitude for someone or something?

What if you devoted yourself to giving as much as possible in every way that you can, including in gratitude? How do you give everything? How do you give more and more? Is it possible to discern when you’d given everything? Can you become fully conscious of everything giving as selflessly and endlessly as things like the sun and the air? Could you give just as selflessly and endlessly? How much love, gratitude, creativity, passion, curiosity, and understanding is it possible to give? Is the greatest gift you can receive the act of giving itself?

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