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.

— David Steindl-Rast

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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.

— David Steindl-Rast

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

— David Steindl-Rast

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

— David Steindl-Rast

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.

— David Steindl-Rast

Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That’s the external aspect. The other is that order that springs from love: there’s no other way of establishing order except through love.

— David Steindl-Rast

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

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

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Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.

— David Steindl-Rast

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.

— David Steindl-Rast

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

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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.

— David Steindl-Rast

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.

— David Steindl-Rast

Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.

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Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

— David Steindl-Rast

Meaning springs from belonging.

— David Steindl-Rast

At a certain pitch of religious experience, the heart just wants to sing; it breaks into song. Paradoxically, you could say when the silence finds its fullness, it comes to word.

— David Steindl-Rast

Is the relationship between God and Jesus Christ not unique? Of course it is. But so is yours. The relationship between God and every human being is unique and irreplaceable – in ever-new variations of the Christ theme.

— David Steindl-Rast

True gratefulness is courage to give thanks for a gift before unwrapping it.

— David Steindl-Rast

Now think of a situation in which something becomes meaningful to you. What is there to grasp? What is there to keep under control? That is not the idea. You will find yourself using expressions in which you are perfectly passive or at least more passive. “Responsive” is really the word, but you are more passive than in a situation in which you are accomplishing a purpose. You will say, “This really did something to me.

— David Steindl-Rast

After all, how could I be a person if Ultimate Reality were impersonal?

— David Steindl-Rast

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