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The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
David Steindl-Rast
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David Steindl-Rast
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 12
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If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.
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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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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.
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Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.
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Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.
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Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.
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Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.
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