Rumi's image suggests gratitude isn't something you *feel* once and forget—it's a deliberate, continuous wrapping of yourself in a posture of appreciation. Most people treat thankfulness as a response to good things, but he's proposing it works backward too: you choose the garment first, and it transforms what you notice. When you actually practice this (say, by writing down three specific things each morning, not vague blessings), you discover your mind stops filtering for problems and starts catching the ordinary gifts—the particular way morning light hits your kitchen, a friend's laugh, the fact that your body works. The cloak doesn't change your circumstances; it changes what corners of your actual life become visible to you.