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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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Vienna
Austria
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Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.
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The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
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Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?
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The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.
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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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A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.
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Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
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The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.
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Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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We can't really waste our time we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.
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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
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Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
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The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
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A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.
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What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
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Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.
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