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.

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.

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

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.

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