fear, gratitude, aliveness

"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."

"If you're grateful, you're not fearful, and if you're not fearful, you're not angry. If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not a sense of scarcity, and you're willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people, and you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power pyramid under which we live."

- David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk