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Giving Thanks for All the Little (And Big) Things in Life

By David Steindl-Rast

Originally featured in Spirituality and Health magazine in 2002, this article by Br. David continues to illuminate the power of wonder in cultivating gratefulness. With surprise as an entry point, we can open to life’s complexity quite simply.

Read on gratefulness.org

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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

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Scientific Proof That Being Thankful Improves Your Health

During Thanksgiving week, people around the United States express gratitude for the bounty of their lives, but many may not realize that in doing so, they're also improving the quality of their health and increasing their life expectancies.

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Radical Gratitude: How to Be Grateful for Both Blessings and Challenges

Usually, when we talk about gratitude, we express gratitude for our blessings.

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7 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Gratitude that Will Motivate You to Give Thanks Year-Round

Cultivating gratitude doesn’t cost any money and it certainly doesn’t take much time, but the benefits are enormous.

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Happiness Isn’t a Feeling—It’s a Skill that Can Be Learned

For most of my life, I clung to the belief that I wasn’t happy because I “just wasn’t wired that way.”

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What’s at the Heart of Each True Act of Generosity

Lynne Twist, a philanthropist and author of The Soul of Money, believes that generosity flows out of gratitude, as she explains in this short film by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg.

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Awake, Aware, and Alert

An act of gratitude is a living whole. To superimpose on its organic flow a mental grid like a series of “steps” will always be somewhat arbitrary. And yet, for the sake of practice, such a delineation can be helpful.

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David Steindl-Rast How to Be Grateful in Every Moment (But Not for Everything)

A Benedictine monk for over 60 years, Steindl-Rast was formed by 20th-century catastrophes. He calls joy “the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” And his gratefulness is not an easy gratitude or thanksgiving — but a full-blooded, reality-based practice and choice.

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The Sun Salutation Decoded: Learn Surya Namaskar

Start your day with reverence for the sun, and harness its life-giving energy with Surya Namaskar.

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Thanksgiving Reflection: Grace Disguised as Obstacles

Although it’s vital to not turn away from what needs attention it’s also important to reflect on what’s good in our lives.

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