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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.
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
Austria
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Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.
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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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In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
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There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful that's what life is.
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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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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
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Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.
David Steindl-Rast
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.
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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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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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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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As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.
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The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
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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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Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
David Steindl-Rast
The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.
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Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.
David Steindl-Rast
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
David Steindl-Rast
Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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Love is saying yes to belonging.
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