David Steindl-Rast Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More David Steindl-Rast quote about:
- Attitude,
- Focus,
- Giving,
- Gratitude,
- Heart,
- Joy,
- Opportunity,
- Spirituality,
- Universe,
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“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 up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.”
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“We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.”
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“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.”
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“Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.”
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“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 to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.”
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“Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.”
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“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
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“Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.”
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“Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.”
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“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
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“The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.”
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“A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.”
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“At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.”
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“Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.”
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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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“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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“From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.”
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“Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.”
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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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“What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.”
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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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“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 that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.”
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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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“One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.”
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“If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.”
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“Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.”
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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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“Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.”
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