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Diwali – Light of Gratitude by Priya Jhawar
Considered the most important of Hindu holidays, Diwali is the Festival of Lights and also marks the beginning of the Indian New Year. Diwali signifies the day of Prince Ram’s return to his home in...
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The Elusive Skill of Gratitude by Al Vreeland
Gratitude does not seem that difficult. In the pause before a meal, in the pause after a healthy baby is born, in the pauses surrounding many important events, gratitude is natural and flows easily. It...
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Painfully Grateful: Giving Thanks for Pain by Shana Stein
The human condition is prone both to seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. It seems only natural that we feel grateful for those things that evoke pleasure; and resentful of those things that cause...
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Radical Gratitude by Chelsea Roff
PART ONE I have a confession to make - I am a compulsive thanker. Compulsive thanking disorder, the label I’m sure my condition will acquire once the pharmaceutical industry gets its hands on it, is...
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Being Grateful despite having Nothing by Tanya Pinto
They live on the streets. Foraging through trash for food. They beg and play as they dart through miles of traffic. And they are dressed in rags. Barefoot and shiny big eyes… these are my street...
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In Search of the Present – Octavio Paz – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 (Translation) In Search of the Present I begin with two words that all men have uttered since the dawn of humanity: thank you. The word gratitude has equivalents in...
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Gratitude Inventory by Catherine Cuellar
I’d been working as a self-employed freelance writer in Texas when I decided to move to California more than a decade ago. I planned to stay on the west coast at least a year, maybe five. But I’d never...
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MAITRI / The Love that Never Dies by Pema Chodron
Berkeley, California Maitri Practice Good morning. This morning I’m going to introduce the practice of maitri. I believe you were all given a hand-out that has on one side, The Four Limitless Ones, and...
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Radical Gratitude: Part 2 by Chelsea Roff
In my last post, I shared how my unease around receiving led me to develop a sort of “compulsive thanking disorder” and alluded to how later in my life yoga helped me transform that “disorder” into...
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SONGS OF GRATITUDE how poets connect us to the pulse of praise
Ameer (Amir) Khusrau, Indian poet and musician of the 13th century. Here’s one story: When Shiva got his creative groove on, he danced his cosmic dance and rat-a-tat-tatted a hand-drum called a...
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