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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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  Spiritual, Gratitude, Roots

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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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  Attitude, World, Way

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• Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

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  Gratitude, Fullness Of Life, Gratefulness

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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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  Lonely, Strong, Loneliness

  David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.

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  Thinking, People, Stupidity

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• ...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

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  Heart, Good Luck, Hinges

  David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co

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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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  People, Together, Connected

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• Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.

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  Blessing, Universe

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• Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

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  Courage, Overcoming, Overcoming Fear

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• Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

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  Mother, Being Yourself, Gratitude

  "Brother David Steindl-Rast on Gratitude". "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Kate Olson, www.pbs.org. November 19, 2010.

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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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  Heart, Fullness Of Life, Life And Death

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• What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Simple

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.83, Paulist Press

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• 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.

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  Simple, Keys, Doors

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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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  Challenges, Wonder, You Like It

  "Become What You Are". Interview with John Loudon, gratefulness.org. 1982.

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• Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.

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  Beautiful

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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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  Home, Heart, Journey

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• What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.

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  Reality, Want, Faces

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• Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long
  as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is
  the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.

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  Gratitude, Keys, Long

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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• Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

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  Spiritual, Alive, May

  David Steindl-Rast (2016). “The Way of Silence: Engaging the Sacred in Everyday Life”, p.32, Franciscan Media

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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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  Art, Achievement, Unity

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• From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Alive

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• There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

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  Grateful, Opportunity, Be Grateful

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• 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.

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  Patience, Reaching, Here And Now

  "Become What You Are". Interview with John Loudon, gratefulness.org. 1982.

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• Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

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  Meaningful, Gratitude, Grateful

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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