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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.
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
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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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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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Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
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Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.
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Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
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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 have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful that's what life is.
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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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Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.
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Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.
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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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In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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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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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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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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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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