Jane Grey, PhD

Gratitude

 

What is gratitude? 

 

Gratitude is a power, a transformative capacity of consciousness.

 

Gratitude is a healing, creative energy.

 

Gratitude is both a practice and a prayer.

 

Gratitude is a grace to be cultivated.


Please scroll down for quotes, recommended reading and links on gratitude.

 

 

 

"If the only prayer you said
in your whole life was,
'thank you,'
that would suffice."
— Meister Eckhart

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Reading and Links about Gratitude


Recommended and Related Reading 

 

Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy
by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and Joni Eareckson Tada

 

Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Everyday of Your Life
by M. J. Ryan

 

The Science of Mind
by Ernest Holmes

 

A Complaint Free World
by Will Bowen

 

You Can Heal Your Life
by Louise L. Hay

 

Conversations with God
Book 1

by Neale Donald Walsch

 

Links

 

A video made of the best email of the year.

This slide show reminds us of how
very rich we are, every day, all the time, in the western culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjffVeQg6Aw

ToDo (pronounce Toe-Doe)

The ToDo Institute’s material on gratitude as a natural path of inner well being is very worthwhile. In addition to his articles, be sure to look at Gregg Krech’s excellent video on cultivating gratitude in relationships (The video stops itself after every major point and you have to restart to keep going, giving you time to think about what he presents.)
http://www.todoinstitute.org/gratitude.html

Quotes on Gratitude and Thanksgiving

 

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all others.”
— Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC),


“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”
— Jacques Maritain  (1882 - 1973)


"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."
— Celia Thaxter


“The moment you are grateful
for your situation, predicament or disease,
is the moment you are healed.”
— Jane Grey
 
 
“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances.
A complaining soul complains even if he lives in
paradise. ”
    — Baha’u’llah
 
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant,
to enact gratitude is generous and noble,
but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
— Johannes A. Gaertner


“O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”
— William Shakespeare


“It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.” 
— James Smith


“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” 
— Seneca


"Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."
— Rabbi Harold Kushner
 

"A thankful heart hath a continual feast." 
— W.J. Cameron

 

"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. 
No Americans have been more impoverished than these
who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." 
— H.U. Westermayer
 
 
"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. 
It's a way to live." 
— Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear
 
 
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. 
Have you used one to say 'thank you?' " 
— William A. Ward
 
 
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
— Aesop
 
 
"If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence."
— G.A. Johnston Ross
 
 
"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action."
— W.J. Cameron
 
 
"Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home."
— Wilbur D. Nesbit

 
 

 

 

 

 

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