This Catholic Benedictine monk says grateful living is a spiritual practice. For decades Brother David has lived part of his life as a hermit, in prayer and contemplation and writing books. The other ...

The enigmatic title of Benedictine Br. David Steindl-Rast's new memoir, i am through you so i, is taken from a line of e.e. cummings' poetry and was selected because it sums up the author's belief: I ...

Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast on slowing down, looking where you're going and being grateful. What Does It Take To Be Grateful? Part 6 of the TED Radio Hour episode Simply Happy. About David ...

Thomas Paine might have approved of this inspirational gift book, which heralds common sense in the sayings of Jesus and in world folklore. Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk in western N.Y., maintains ...

In his book “Music of Silence,” Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast writes: “Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking ...

Here's a New Year's resolution that could make this year better than last year: Practice gratefulness. Brother David Steindl-Rast may be the world's best gratefulness mentor. He has been through a lot ...

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, teaches about the transforming power of living gratefully not just when something wonderful or special happens, but every day no matter what is ...

Monastics from diverse religious traditions the world over face similar opportunities, challenges and frustrations. Shortly before his death in 1968, Thomas Merton met the young Tenzin Gyatso, the ...

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