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The pace of our lives can make it difficult to stop long enough to pay attention to the daily miracles we encounter. In this holiday season, a time when we are so often reminded to practice the art of gratitude and giving, it can feel even more challenging to truly embody this state of being.
Fortunately, our practice offers a loving nudge toward gratitude, helping us to return to our center and a state of grounded, relaxed and energized awareness. Zen Buddhist John Tarrant Roshi explains why our practice of GRACE is so powerful within the context of gratitude. "Attention is the most basic form of love. Through it, we bless and are blessed."
This month's newsletter features a number of resources to support a practice embodied in gratitude, for ourselves, each other and the gifts and "hits" we experience each day. We hope the tools below inspire you to approach this transformative journey with a sense of this heartfelt joy. Gratitude truly does have the power to open us to our extraordinary capacities and to nurture the ongoing evolution of our global family. After all, as Brother David Steindl-Rast explains in our featured video below:
"If you are grateful, you are not fearful, and if you're not fearful, you're not violent. If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power pyramid from under which we live."
As always, thank you for your wholehearted participation in this community. Your support and enthusiasm help to shape and evolve this practice in profound ways.
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