Gratitude integrates

• Gratitude builds trust. 
• Gratitude appreciates the desert of the giver, and desert is the basis of trust. 
• Gratitude evokes in the recipient an inner stillness. 
• Gratitude is the expression of a feeling of well-being as opposed to that feeling of welfare which comes of acquiring something of worth. 
• Gratitude is about making oneself open to reception, making oneself vulnerable to injury and contamination, allowing oneself to feel the appreciation for another’s will that could well be stronger than one's own will. 
• Gratitude allows for connection between separate forms of being. 
• Gratitude integrates.