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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.

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
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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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In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
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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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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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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
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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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The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.
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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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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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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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Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.
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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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The root of joy is gratefulness.
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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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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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Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.
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There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful that's what life is.
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