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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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Wholeheartedness
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Everything
Wholeness
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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
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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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In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
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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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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 universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.
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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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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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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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Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
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Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
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Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.
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There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful that's what life is.
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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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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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Love is saying yes to belonging.
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