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Category: Spirituality
Maya Angelou on Gratitude
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou Sister Adele, though not doing photography work presently, continues to graciously offer her gifts with a spirit of joy. And we are all blessed by her work and her cheerful disposition.… Continue Reading “Maya Angelou on Gratitude”
The Expansiveness of Gratefulness
There’s a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it’s a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for. – Elaine St. James
Calling All Wanna Be Saints!!
To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less. – Ronald Rolheiser in The Holy Longing
A Prayer of Gratitude
O Great Spirit, I awake to another sun, grateful for gifts bestowed, granted one by one. – Twylah Nitsch, Seneca Medicine Woman
Gratitude Brings Consolation
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Fullness of Life
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness. – David Steindl-Rast in Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit
I would suggest that one of the most important habits to cultivate is that of Gratitude. Let’s not let the opportunities to be grateful and say “thank you” pass us by! Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit”
When and Where to be Grateful
Looking behind I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward I am filled with vision. Looking upwards I am filled with strength. Looking within I discover peace. – Apache Prayer
Amazing Words from Etty Hillesum
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. – Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
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