more from Brother Ben

I am thankful that there is not a requisite “feeling” that I must experience to show my gratitude. I have had mountaintop experiences that have invoked very powerful emotional responses. 
I, like Peter, would build a shrine to that experience but the emotion would not remain. We cannot live on the mountaintop forever. – When I go looking for the “feeling” I can't make it happen. The “feeling” comes and goes as it pleases.

My home garden and my relationship to it is a good example of what I am talking about. I have known absolute bliss in my garden. Yesterday, after many days of neglect, I went out to the garden to work and to find the bliss. The work happened but the bliss did not come. – The bliss did not come yesterday but it will come when I least expect it to. LIVE LIFE even when you don't feel alive.