Reflections

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    Asmi Maladewa
    8 hours ago

    I love this difference! Aurealisa tries to put it into practice. Feeling grateful is when I say thank you because my coffee is delicious. But being grateful is when I’m thankful every day for having the ability to drink coffee and appreciating the farmers who grow it. One is a response, the other is a character disposition.

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    Harry Moglie
    12 hours ago

    Gratitude now appears to change the recipient’s thoughts, feelings, and cognition in order to affect their behavior. After meeting the inquisitive individual yesterday who introduced him to rock-gazing, he seemed to be rather interested in things. The https://movieboxhub.app/

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    Emily Phyo
    3 days ago

    Honestly, I think feeling grateful is more about the emotion you get in a specific moment — like when something nice happens and you feel thankful for it.
    But being grateful goes a little deeper — it’s more like living with a mindset of appreciation every day, even for small things.

    Kind of like when you find something new that makes you happy — for me, recently it was discovering the TokuPlay App
    . I didn’t just feel grateful for finding it once; I’ve actually been grateful because it’s become part of my daily chill time.

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    Sophia kimm
    2 months ago

    Being grateful now seems to influence behaviour in a way that alters the recipient’s thoughts, feelings, and consciousness. He appeared to be really interested in things after meeting the curious person yesterday who introduced him to rock-gazing. The website https://www.spotiwap.com

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    Johnathan Abney
    2 months ago

    Being thankful now appears to have an impact on one’s conduct in such a way that the gift changed the recipient’s perceptions, emotions, and awareness. After meeting the inquisitive individual yesterday who introduced him to rock-gazing, he seemed to be quite interested in things. https://movieboxhd.app/

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    Paul Ward
    2 months ago

    An emotion, feeling grateful is reflexive and may not result in any particular action. while adopting an attitude of gratitude is a lifestyle choice and value system that manifests itself in actions as well as feelings.https://loklokhd.app/

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    Emma Brown
    3 months ago

    Feeling grateful is an emotion, reflexive, and may not lead to any specific action. whereas being grateful is a way of life, a value system, often expressed through behavior, not just emotions. https://geometrydashwave.io

  8. Ose
    Ose
    1 year ago

    Feeling grateful to my understanding describes a kind of volatile thankful sensation in resonance to something outside, usually related to a gift received, while being grateful is an inner positition, which we can always decide for, including feeling grateful also, and which relates to and echoes a quality of our deep innermost formless, timeless and boundless source we all belong to. It is interconnective, heart-filling and all inclusive.

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    tazz0
    1 year ago

    Feeling grateful connotes to me at first something immediate in the moment or delayed reactions again in the moment(s) to come . Feeling.
    Being grateful seems now is a effect on one’s behavior of being such that the gift altered the person as an effect as where their perceptions, feelings, awareness was the result. As he seems very interested in things after meeting the curious person yesterday who turned him on to looking under rocks.

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    barba
    1 year ago

    Feeling gratitude: it is an overwhelming feeling that floods me, my body. Connected with amazement, surprise, then joy: there is no “I” here, no ego. Being grateful: This is where the mind is involved. It sees the gifts to me.

  11. Joseph
    Joseph McCann
    1 year ago

    Reading everyone’s reflection on today’s question was enjoyable, thought provoking, philosophical, and educational!

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      Loc Tran
      1 year ago

      Joseph, I resignate with your response. There are many different directions to go with questions like this one. We had one like this a couple months ago on meanning and purpose.

  12. Robin Ann
    Robin Ann
    1 year ago

    My thought is being grateful is recognizing that something good has happened to you. Feeling is a reaction to something good that has happened.

  13. Antoinette88615
    Antoinette
    1 year ago

    It’s the same

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      Loc Tran
      1 year ago

      Very well put, Antoinette: simple, sweet, short, and straight to the point. Definitions are subjective. The question is designed to test whether we’re overthinking or not which is an easy trap to fall into in modern society that only puts a greater premium on being the biggest and baddest.

  14. Charlie T
    Charlie T
    1 year ago

    Feeling grateful is the result of being
    grateful. Being grateful is the positive
    action that might lead to feelings of
    contentment, joy, positivity, and having
    gratitude for what is.
    It should come with a warning label:
    Danger ⚠️ practicing gratitude, may lead
    to feelings of gratefulness. 😁

  15. Barb C
    Barb C
    1 year ago

    Like others I wrestled with this despite majoring in English and Linguistics and feeling as if this question should be right up my alley. If I substitute other mental attitudes for “grateful”–happy, sad, tired–I get to something like Loc’s discussion of “ser” and “estar” in Spanish and Joseph’s comparison to things like tiredness and hunger. Being is an internal state that may persist; feeling is more fleeting. With a practice that cultivates being grateful I’m more apt to feel grateful in the moment.

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