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Word for the Day

“Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you.”

-Michael Bernard Beckwith

Grateful Living Workshops — Bring Gratitude to Your Organization!

Grateful Living Workshops Are you looking for ways to cultivate a culture of gratitude and…
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Word for the Day

“Gratitude takes us from abstract belief to living compassion in the world. Gratitude is strongest, clearest, most robust, and radical when things are really hard. Really hard. All-is-lost hard.”

-Diana Butler Bass
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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…
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Word for the Day

“Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given; gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.”

-David Whyte
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Community Reflections

Community Reflections: Grief and Gratefulness

by The Grateful Living Community
Our community reflects on the question "Have I ever experienced gratefulness in the midst of…
Word for the Day

“The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible. And it is the art of gratitude that makes joy possible.”

-Ann Voskamp
Videos

Mantragold – “Gratitude”

by Mantragold
We invite you to take a moment to enjoy the sounds and sights of this…
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Articles

Waking Up to What Is: Grateful in the Face of It All

by Kristi Nelson
The ability to wake up to another new day — one with which we will…
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Word for the Day

“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
Articles

Gratitude via Mental Subtraction

by Laura Grace Weldon
This is my favorite season. Gorgeous autumn leaves, vivid blue skies, and light as nuanced…
Q&A

Gratefulness and Warring Religions

by Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Q: How does gratefulness help in these terrible times when one religion is pitted against…
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