Birth: July 12, 1926
Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wis….
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful..
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life..
The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busynes….
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 ….
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a ….
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves..
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 -- ….
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence..
If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well..
One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in time….
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart..
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be heal….
Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens..
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful..
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 hap….
Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning..
Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power fai….
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our alivene….
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift..
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear..