How to Be Grateful in Every Moment (But Not for Everything) →

Here are two quotes that I want to hold onto and think about. From this episode of On Being with David Steindl-Rast:

Mysticism is the experience of limitless belonging…The mystic is not a special human being. Every human being is a special kind of mystic.

And, when Krista Tippet asked him what he is grateful for now, what gives him hope in light of the world’s mess and despair:

Well, one thing I have already said that’s on a larger scale: looking back and seeing that all the most difficult experiences always lead to something new and even something better, if we trust.

In order to keep us going, it is enough to be grateful for the next breath, because it’s not to be taken for granted that I can take another breath. And if I think of the millions of people who have breathing difficulties, and here I can breathe — just to remember that. Just be grateful for the next breath.

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