Bashar defines the term of gratitude and what it means. I would prefer "appreciation" instead of gratitude because gratitude implies - for me - always other persons and has been misused so often by "authorities". He defines also the terms "need" and "want"  and definitely I prefer "want"... Bashar's definition of gratitude is similar to the definition of Love by Elias: Love is knowledge and appreciation.

Question: I believe you've defined abundance as `being able to do what you need to do when you need to do it.' It doesn't say anything about being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it. How do you reconcile those? Now before you answer… (audience laughter)…you see, it's kind of a rhetorical question because I want to answer it before you have a chance to open Darryl's mouth.

Bashar: Do share.

Q: Well, I think it has something to do with what you have been referring to as `Conscious Commandment.'

B: Very good, keep going.

Q; And I've been exploring this and I…ah, for a couple years now or so, I have maintained a very positive attitude and trust and belief that if I act on my excitement, think positively, that things will really actually accelerate and work out very well. I'm in a period where I'm not experiencing that and I'm questioning the beliefs and the attitudes that I've had toward that, and it comes down to that I believe I have applied the Conscious Commandment in order to get what I want when I want it but yet apparently what I am getting is just what I need when I need it and I don't like just that. I want more.

B: Ah, now you are standing on the crossroads and in a sense, we were wondering when someone was going to catch the idea of the definitions between `need' and `want,' as you now have done. It is all absolutely centered on defining that idea and aligning the idea of wants and needs and operating on a level where they are in many ways, the same thing. It can be handled in many directions: it can be consolidated down to the idea of simply enjoying everything that comes along because if it is there then it is worth enjoying, that is one level, and, at the same time, by going through that doorway it can be having exactly what you want, exactly when you want it, exactly the way you want it because there really is no reason why you can't have it that way as long as that comes from absolute Unconditional Love and not some idea of the negative ego. Once that has all been cleared out there really is nothing that stops it, and you now arriving at the point of recognition that there really doesn't have to be a difference between what you call a `need' and a `want' in that sense, that can propel you very strongly towards your recognition that you really have the ability to, as you say, miraculously and magically manifest what you want, when you want to. You have now truly, opened that door by recognizing first of all that those two terms can be interchangeable.

B: Needs are usually defined by your society as something below your wants. Wants are usually defined as something above your needs.

Q: Okay, yeah, that's true.

B: Keep going, you're honing in nicely.

Q: If one's needs are defined at a level we have not accessed...Let's say that our needs are to experience deprivation…you and I have touched on that before…and we go `I don't want to feel deprived, I don't want to experience deprivation' but at a higher-level Consciousness is saying you're going to experience deprivation.

B: No, no, no, you will experience the notion and the lessons and the information of the idea, the concept you call deprivation.

Q: Isn't that the same thing as experiencing it?

B: Not necessarily physiologically; remember the library analogy.

Q: Okay, fine.

B: If in experiencing physiological deprivation, as we have said, you can understand why you would have chosen to show yourself that experience physically, you could then determine to experience that energy, that information, and receive that knowledge in another type of experience. Yes, experience is in many ways, is necessary for knowledge, especially in physiological reality; but it does not necessarily have to be always the absolute, actual experience of the negative in order to have an experience that gives you the information that you could get out of having the negative experience.

Q: In other words, if you can get the information out of imagining it, that suffices.

B: Veerrry good. And now you have hit another nail squarely on the head. What this actually involves is the multidimensionality you allow your imagination to be. This is fundamental to the creation of dreamtime, and I do not mean while you're asleep. I'm now talking about dreamtime as something that represents in many ways being awake but being in the dream, living that dream and allowing physical reality to blend as one idea. So this idea of blending and elevating the vibration of your `needs' to be aligned with the idea of the lofty `wants' is found within the imagination and to whatever degree the imagination can be allowed it's true dominion, will determine your availability of alignment between needs and wants, and allow them to be one thing and not two separate ideas, two separate issues. So you have hit the nail on the head, it does concern imagination directly, but what it more precisely concerns is your ability to really allow that imagination true multidimensionality.

Q: How would you apply this now…how would I apply it?

B: It does, to some degree, come down once again to definitions and shall we say, cleansing the definitions you no longer prefer out of the imagination so that the only one that will remain in effect are the ones that give you a positive manifestation yet at the same time that you have the positive manifestation it allows you the negative recognition you could have gotten by having the negative experience. I will sum it up in one word, develop an overwhelming sense of connection to nature, connection to the infinite through the facility that is called, gratitude. Understand?

Q: Yeah.

B: With absolute gratitude you will have nothing barred from you, nothing. Nothing.

Q: Can you define that a little better?

B: All right, it is in some senses, in some religions in your society, called being in a state of grace. In other words, some individuals say it is being humble yet expansive. It is feeling the universe in your heart. It is relating to all of nature. It is, in your terminology, being grateful for the opportunity of all the experience you have. It is being grateful for the consciousness of reality in whatever form it takes to give you the information you need, by being whatever form it is; a pane of glass, a stone, an animal, a person, the sky, the clouds, the trees, the stars…gratitude for all of it. Infinite gratitude opens you up. It is, in a sense, vulnerability in trust, in strength, in a positive way. Gratitude.

You may find some excellent examples in what you call your Native American culture; the way they speak of gratitude in many ways is what we are talking about now. It is an acknowledgement and a recognition of all of the mirrors you are given in reality, so that you can be so reflective and so clear because of that gratitude, that all images can be reflected from you, all states can be reflected back from you and you can be whatever you want when you want to be that idea, at any moment. Absolute Gratitude, in a sense it is the ultimate centering. Sometimes your society calls it `surrender.' We simply do not choose to use that term because in many ways it actually implies you are losing your identity and that you are no longer in control. It simply means that you become so transparent and so effortless in your creation that you are actually exercising the control you are as an aspect of the infinite so that it seems like you are not doing anything. Gratitude. Gratitude. Love. Unconditional gratitude. The joy of being the gift that you have been given in that way will allow you to experience it in any way you want to and at the same time by experiencing it that way you will still appreciate all other ways unconditionally that you could have experienced it.

Let me put it this way, an individual in your terminology who is physiologically very abundant, comes up in a situation where they meet face to face with an individual that in your terms in physiologically impoverished…an overwhelming sense of Love and Gratitude at being who they are is what that truly centered person feels and they can be of service in may ways to the individual who in your terms may be impoverished and may desire to change, but may not be able to understand the alignment of needs and wants; whereas the abundant person in that way can experience through the other person's life, through the other person's eyes, the idea of the lessons, the knowledge, the understanding of why they would have chosen that, sees the strength within them, understands it and integrates it and absorbs it within themselves and gives gratitude, radiates light and gratitude at being able to see that lesson, to receive that lesson, and at the same time be whoever they want to be when they want to be that person and still receive all the lessons, all the gratitude, all the support. In a sense it is, a detached attachment, an ultimate attachment to everything at yet knowing that everything passes through you and allows you to remain whatever you wish to be at that moment. Some of this may seem esoteric, but it is completely couched in a language of emotionality, and in a sense it must be. There are not too many terminologies that exist upon your planet in your language that we can use that are `logical' in a way that can express the emotionality. These are things that must be felt. It is the feeling of that connection that allows you to be what you want to be when you want to be it, rather than the idea of the analytical understanding of that condition.

Gratitude is a state of grace, a state of appreciation, a state of Love.

Coyright 1988 Darryl Anka