The theme for the month of November is Gratitude. This continues a practice on this blog over the years I’ve been posting quotes, reflections, and photos.
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A life of gratitude accepts the bad with the good. Genuine gratitude is not a zero sum game in which thankfulness increases the more fortunate you are and decreases the more adversity you experience.
Have you ever been surprised by love? Surprised by beauty? Surprised by kindness? It is always a good time to share that kind of loving surprise with others. Here is a short list of ways to commit random acts of kindness. You could probably add to the list!!
~ The next toll booth you come to, pay for a car behind you.
~ Send a thank you letter to a teacher you once had, letting him or her know the difference the teacher made in your life.
~ Ask an older person to tell you a story about his or her youth.
~ Order a mail order gift anonymously for a friend or co-worker.
~ Give another driver your parking spot.
~ Let someone merge ahead of you, smile and wave at that person.
~ Write a note to the boss of someone who has helped you, thanking the boss for having such a great employee.
~ Praise the work or attitude of a co-worker to someone else in the workplace.
~ Write a note to the owner of a house or garden in your neighborhood whose beauty gives you pleasure.
~ Say, “I love you” to 20 people for whom it’s true.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama
If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For the month of September, the subject will be Wisdom.
Guidance streams through the whole of creation, and in any moment we can recognize the form it is taking right before our eyes. – Patricia Campbell Carlson – sister of Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
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