Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
David Steindl-RastLook closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
David Steindl-RastSometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being... Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.
David Steindl-RastIn daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
David Steindl-RastMonastic contemplatives have staked out a clearly limited area to be transformed by contemplation: the monastery. Lay contemplatives face the challenge of transforming the whole world.
David Steindl-RastThe root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
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One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
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We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
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People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.
David Steindl-RastIn moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
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