Complacent Thoughts
The Lanzarote Sessions - Series 11 Session 27
THE MESSAGE
Transcribed on 28th September 2025 @ 4:00pm
Complacency, that is my topic for this session, and it looks like you can’t spell it!
Good day to you. Hope you’re not too unhappy that your break away is coming to an end. We’re upset for you. We like our daily conversations. We do hope you work to fit some in at your home too.
Now, back to our topic. Try again Complasency! Still not there, but lets move on! Perhaps before I’ve finished you’ll work it out.
One of the saddest aspects that people your side display is complacency in their life, every day and in so many ways. They are complacent from the first waking hour, until their last of each day. Everything they confront, they’re complacent about. Breakfast, the new day ahead, their family, job, assets, home and the nature around them.
Fewer people than ever take a few moments to say a prayer of gratitude for the fresh new day ahead, for their presence in it, and for all that they will experience. They have become complaisant, taking everything for granted.
What if it wasn’t there? The clean air, the pure water, the rain, the flora, the family and friends, the job to work for money. The list is endless and often without a single pause for gratitude.
I’m not suggesting one should live life thanking everything all the time. That would be completely unnecessary. But a few moments in prayer to send blessings for all the good things they have pleasure of having. Even the challenges that will test them and encourage them to grow stronger.
You my friend, came to this place one month ago and thought the weeks ahead would last forever. And now in the setting sun that creeps ever nearer, you are realising how lucky you have been. The people you have made friends with, the excellent food, the drink and the ambience of that beautiful place. I don’t believe you have been complacent, but many others there will be.
Nobody knows if the sun will rise for them the next day. Nobody knows whether their biological body will awaken in the same condition. Nobody knows what enemies to the sanctum of their lives will be around the corner when it will be too late to appreciate. My message to you is now, this moment is the best time to close your eyes and offer a few words to our Divine in gratitude for what we have been blessed with.
Never take anything for granted. Instead, appreciate it now, in gratitude and blessings. It’s nothing to do with being religious or god-like. It’s to do with being aware of all your senses, your surroundings, and everything within that space that makes your life better.
Work harder to climate complacency from your life and replace it by simply showing appreciation and gratitude for all your have been blessed with.
That, my friend, is the end of my message to you. You have one more speaker to end this series and I know you’ll love their message. Have a great day.
Goodbye.
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