8.12.2016

David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful


TEDGlobal 2013
David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful   (script)
Summary
No one won't want to be happy.  All of us want to be happy. We are grateful when we are happy. In fact, it is not happiness that makes us grateful but it is gratefulness that makes us happy.  Gratefulness is a gift to us. It should be something that gratefulness spontaneously rises in our heart.  It is not that you've earned or worked for it. Naturally, a moment when you feel grateful comes to you, this moment is a gift. The gift wiythin this gift is really an opportunity.
If you cannot feel this good opportunity that you can enjoy and you are grateful, you'll be rushing through life and you'll be not stopping to see the opportunity.  
You miss the opportunity because you don't stop. You have to stop and sometimes get quiet. And when you stop, the next thing is to look. You look. You open your eyes. You use your ears and all your senses. You can feel the opportunity that is given to you.  You also open your hearts. When you open your hearts, the opportunities invite you to do something. From here, you can go and really do something.
Stop. Look, and go. This is the key that you are being happy, because   you have the opportunity to feel grateful. You can always be grateful for all things. It'll make the world a happy place.
Words in this story
discrimination / the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
appreciate / recognize the full worth of.
grateful /adj/ feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful.
gratefulness /noun/  gratefully /adv/
bereavement /be·-reave·-ment/ /bɪˈriv mənt/the death of a close relation or friend.
believe /be·-lieve/ /bɪˈliv/
scarcity /scar·-ci·-ty/ /ˈskɛər sɪ ti/ the state of being scarce or in short supply, shortage.
scary /scar·-y/ /ˈskɛər i/

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