At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

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

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.

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 healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

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

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

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