Short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video by Eckhart Tolle explaining that true gratitude is not a comparative mental narrative (feeling grateful because others are worse off) but a quality directed to the present moment and whatever arises in it.
The real gratitude is not going into some narrative in your mind and then be grateful for something that you tell yourself. For example, oh, look at all these poor people. My life is so much better than all these poor people. I really should be grateful for my life. That's not the real thing. That means you go to some conceptual reality and your gratitude happiness is dependent on other people being worse off than you. That's not what is meant by actual the practice of gratitude. The gratitude of gratitude is always directed towards the present moment and whatever is arising in the present moment. That is the most powerful.
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