Daily Zen - Thursday, December 24

Everything is a gift. 

The degree to which we are awake 

to this truth is a measure of our

gratefulness, and gratefulness is

a measure of our aliveness.

~ David Steindl-Rast

Weekend Zen, April 7-8

In daily life we must see that

it is not happiness that makes

us grateful, but gratefulness

that makes us happy.

~ David Steindl-Rast

Weekend Zen, August 1-2

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that

which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, 

that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is 

conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

~ David Steindl-Rast