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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

David Steindl-Rast

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David Steindl-Rast
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 12
Monk
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Theologian
Vienna
Austria
Joy
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Living
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Life
Meaningful
Gratitude
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Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
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Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.
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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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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
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Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.
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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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What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
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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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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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The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
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Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.
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Love is saying yes to belonging.
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One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
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The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.
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If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.
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