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Articles

Moving Beyond Gratitude to Living Gratefully 

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay makes a distinction between gratitude as a response to something we are pleased…
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Pathways

Enliven Your Spirit: Be Bold in Your Care for the World

by The Grateful Living Team
As a spiritual practice, living gratefully is not passive. It has essential roots in a…
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Pathways

Enliven Your Spirit: Make Space for Silence and Stillness

by The Grateful Living Team
Claiming your full aliveness depends on making time and space for silence and stillness. It…
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Pathways

Enliven Your Spirit: Awaken Your Inner Mystic

by The Grateful Living Team
Spirituality depends not on certainty but on a willingness to explore the ineffable, an openness…
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Pathways

Enliven Your Spirit: Let Your Senses Be a Portal

by The Grateful Living Team
While spirituality often focuses on awakening to the intangible, it is rooted in the body.…
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Pathways

Enliven Your Spirit: Define What Spirituality Means to You

by The Grateful Living Team
Spirituality is not touchy feely, and it is not some lofty place accessed with a…
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Articles

Empowered to Confront What is Deadly: The Spirituality of Living Gratefully

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay defines spirituality as aliveness and explores living gratefully as a spiritual path.
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Articles

What Our Ancestors Knew: Living Gratefully Is at the Heart of Life

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay explains how gratitude is a common through line in spiritual traditions and how…
Videos

To Be in Awe

by Reflections of Life
In this short film, 96-year-old Dot Fisher-Smith offers wisdom for living a full life including…
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Articles

Gratefulness Is Our Common Ground

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
In this essay, Grateful Living CEO Joe Primo describes gratefulness as a shared language that…
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Articles

Between the Notes: The Gift of Silence and Stillness

by Sheryl Chard, Grateful Living
In this essay, Sheryl Chard reflects on the gifts of silence and stillness and how…
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Articles

Bound Together: Grateful Contentment

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay shares how living gratefully naturally leads you away from discontent and towards contentment,…
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