Category Archives: Gratefulness
Brother Weeps — Half-Full or Half-Empty?
A True Understanding of Who We Really Are
The Measure of Our Aliveness
Cultivate Gratefulness
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
The German philosopher Martin Heidegger described in his writings an intimate relationship between thinking and thanking. To think is to be aware of all that exists; it is to be thoughtful. To be thoughtful is to be thankful, Read more [...]
What Goes Around Comes Around and Goes Around . . .
"No one is as capable of gratitude as one
who has emerged from the kingdom of night." ~ Elie Wiesel
"Thanking is a true understanding of who we really are." ~ Julian of Norwich
The opposite of take is give.
The opposite of to take for granted
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Gratefulness: Practicing the Difficult Simple
I have long maintained that from among the plethora of words within the 16 documents from the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church (1962-65), perhaps the most important words were four that are found in the first chapter of the Constitution Read more [...]
Bound By Thanks
Piglet noticed that
even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
~ A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
He who does not reflect his life
back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
~Albert Schweitzer
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