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A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you.

The spontaneous feeling of obligation to the Divine, which makes you do your best to become less unworthy of what the Divine is doing for you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p3,p4,p5</ref>

...it is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p1</ref>

Gratitude Is One of the Five Psychological Perfections

Compassion and gratitude are essentially psychic virtues. They appear in the consciousness only when the psychic being takes part in active life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/transcripts-of-experiences#p1</ref>

The ego thinks of what it wants and has not. This is its constant preoccupation.

As to gratitude, it is a psychic feeling and all that is psychic helps the soul to flower. There is nothing wrong from the spiritual point of view in emotion. The only thing is that it should not become a tie of bondage in the path. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/opposition-of-the-hostile-forces-viii#p3</ref>

That [feeling the Mother's Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty] is one part of the psychic experience—the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity and Light is shown, falls away, cannot prevail in the nature. With all that the increase of the psychic qualities, gratitude, obedience, unselfishness, fidelity to the true perception, true impulse etc. that comes from the Mother or leads to the Mother. When this side grows, then the other, the Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty, can develop and be permanently there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-being-and-its-role-in-sadhana#p5</ref>