David Steindl-Rast Quotes

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• 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…
• Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into…
• Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
• Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.
• In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
• 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…
• From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.
• 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…
• What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
• The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
• 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…
• There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a…
• Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
• 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…
• Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.
• People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try…
• "The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open…
• Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.
• At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.
• 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.…

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