If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

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.

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 aliveness.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

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.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself.

Happiness is Grandad saving links to cat videos in a Word document so he can share them when she visits.

Stressed by any other name is fear.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.