David Steindl-Rast Quotes - Page 3

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• The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

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  Artist, Painful Death, Thousand

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• One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

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  Inspirational, Ties, Gratefulness

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• "The root of joy is gratefulness."

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  Gratitude, Roots, Joy

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• "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."

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  Religious, Religion, World

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• The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.

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  Faith, Heart, Gone

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.144, Paulist Press

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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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  Self, Two, Experience

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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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  Single, Gratitude, Heart

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.12, Paulist Press

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• Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

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  Faith, Courageous, Source

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• The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

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  Needs, Universe

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.201, Paulist Press

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• Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

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  Fullness Of Life, Surprise, Gratefulness

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• Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

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  Wind, Independence, Different

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.137, Image

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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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  Character, Mind, Revelations

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• When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

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  Silence, Focus, Neglect

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• At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

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  Mind, Mindfulness, Moments

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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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  Religious, Moving, Together

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• Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Opportunity

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.210, Paulist Press

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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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  Gratitude, Doors, Joy

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.11, Paulist Press

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• The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

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  Struggle, Goal, Process

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

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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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  Real, Artist, Community

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