Michael Beckwith

And what happens is if you come into a feeling of gratitude.

your perception and your perceptual windows become clearer.

And now you're able to see opportunities.

If you don't believe in possibilities, the mind can't see opportunities.

So when you open yourself up to gratitude, you start to see opportunities.

You start to see things differently.

Then that develops momentum and you become a grateful person, a grateful being, which then you begin to see things you've never seen before.

You know, I remember years ago, I was moved to become a vegetarian.

So I'm driving down Crenshaw Boulevard.

There's a store, I think it was Lindbergh store, a health food store back in the day.

And I passed by, I said, oh, wow, a health food store.

I wonder how long it's been there because I've never seen it before.

So I go in, it's been there over 20 years, but I never noticed it because my attention, that wasn't important to me, eating good food.

I never noticed it.

It's been there in my neighborhood all these years, but I've never seen it.

So once our perceptual windows get clear based on gratitude and high intention, we start to see things we've never seen before.

We start to see people we've never noticed before.

There's an old statement that when the pickpocket sees the Buddha, all he sees is his pockets.

He can't even notice that he's the Buddha, that he's carrying enlightenment.

because he's only interested in the pockets.