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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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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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Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
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Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.
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There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful that's what life is.
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What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
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The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.
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The root of joy is gratefulness.
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Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
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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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Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
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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.
David Steindl-Rast
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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