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Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
David Steindl-Rast
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David Steindl-Rast
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 12
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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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There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful that's what life is.
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One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
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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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The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
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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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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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Love is saying yes to belonging.
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What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
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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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There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.
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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.
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Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
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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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Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.
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Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
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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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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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