What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.
Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.
One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.
Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
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.
...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.
Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.
There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
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.
"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
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