But you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. You must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.
~ Elizabeth McCracken in THE GIANT'S HOUSE
Notice that the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are the victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego -- your need to possess and control -- and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous -- large-souled.