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David Steindl-Rast - From the Artists category:
There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Attitude category:
Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Beauty category:
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Complexity category:
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Courage category:
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Difficulty category:
You never do anything, theoretically or ideally, just because it's more difficult. You do it in spite of its being difficult, but for a good reason. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Experience category:
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Faith category:
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Generosity category:
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Goals category:
The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Grace category:
A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Gratitude category:
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Happiness category:
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Journey category:
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.' (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Joy category:
The root of joy is gratefulness... It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Keys category:
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy... (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Life category:
The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Opportunity category:
There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Order category:
Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other is that order that springs from love: there's no other way of establishing order except through love. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Patience category:
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Peace category:
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Reality category:
What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Religion category:
We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Religion category:
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Revelation category:
If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Solitude category:
Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Spirituality category:
Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being... Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Time category:
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Timeliness category:
The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Truth category:
Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Universe category:
A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it - that alone can be like waking up from a dream. (David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast - From the Words category:
When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence. (David Steindl-Rast)
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