"Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality."

-- David Steindl-Rast

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“Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very great fire in you. You will be on fire because you have chosen as your love object something impossible. You will have to weep and cry, and you will have to pray, and you will have to fast, and your mind has to continuously repeat and remember the beloved.”
“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.”
“Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.”
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
“I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.”
“When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what's happening right now. When I spend time with students, they tell me that they've read something in a book or heard something from a teacher that they don't think they're living up to. And I tell them, â€œTake care of yourself right now. Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be or what the world should be like. This is where you are now. So how do you care for yourself this minute?”
“When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.”
“The really beautiful thing about each book of the Bible is that you can find God's love through each chapter because God is the author and God is love.”

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