Running Is Not an Option

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Time: An Imponderable

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

As eternity is reckoned, there’s a lifetime in a second.
Piet Hein, Grooks

Still Waters

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one. But left to stand, it will gradually clear of itself.
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

A New Saint (to me, at least)

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Embrace the World

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Now playing: The Robert Shaw Chorale - Away in the Manger
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Pause

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

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.

A life practice from Br. David Steindl-Rast

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Now playing: Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton - Ave, dulcissima Maria
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A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings…

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

After an orange cloud — formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents — reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat.

-Vladimir Kovalyonok (Astronaut)

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Now playing: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Troika (from Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije Suite)
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Love’s Virtues

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

-St. Teresa of Avila

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Now playing: Sting - Gabriel’s Message
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Gratitudes Interuptus?

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

-William Arthur Ward

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Now playing: Matthias Eisenberg; Michel Plasson: Orchestre Du Capitole De Toulouse - Symphony #3 In C Minor, Op. 78, "Organ" (Conclusion)
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Do What You Can

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

However much concerned I was at the problem of misery in the world, I never let myself get lost in broodings over it. I always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of it to an end.

-Albert Schweitzer

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Now playing: Willi Boskovsky; Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra - Radetzky March
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Timing

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

It is never too late to become what you might have been.

-George Eliot

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Now playing: Los Angeles Master Chorale - Lux Æterna - 1. Introitus
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Posture Not Often Discussed in Deportment Class

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

-Etty Hillesum

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Now playing: Voices of Ascension - Super flumina Babilonis
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A Blessing

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being.

-Apache Blessing

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Now playing: Grateful Dead - Attics of My Life
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Exquisite Imponderability

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

-Eknath Easwaran

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Now playing: Bryn Terfel, Gareth Jones, Meinir Heulyn, The Black Mountain Choir, The Risca Choir & Welsh National Opera Orchestra - Hiraeth
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Life Lessons

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

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Not One of His Fables

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

-Aesop

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Wonder

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words.

-Joanna Macy

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Now playing: The Tallis Scholars - Credo
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That Guy, Plato…

…knew what he was talking about…

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Music… gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything.

-Plato

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Now playing: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
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Summation of Gratefulness

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

I am, therefore I thank.

-Cindy Lubar Bishop

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Now playing: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - New World Symphony No. 9
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Charge!!!!!

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

All attack is a call for help. When you know this, you begin at once to look deeply into the question of what kind of help is being called for.

-Neale Donald Walsch

Travel Instructions

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their (sic) destination.

-John Schaar