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Category: Gratitude
Gratitude Conversations Volumes I-VI
"Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness. Day and night, gifts keep pelting down on us. If we are aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us."Brother David Steindl-Rast Read Gratit...
read moreThe Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Oliver Sacks’ Gratitude
And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the super natural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life – achieving a sense of peace within onesel...
read moreMe: Emotions – Gifts and Thanks
Everything is gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness.David Steindal-Rast Section I, "Me: Emotions - Gifts and Thanks," in Diana Butler Bass' Grateful: T...
read moreConfession: No Thanks
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.French Proverb I have been looking at gratitude for a few years now. I am currently reading Diana Butler-Bass' Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks. In its Prologue, "Confession: No Thanks," Butle...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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