1. To live gratitude is to touch Heaven

    3 November 26, 2020

    Jendhamuni at Greylock Mountain on November 22, 2020. Mt. Greylock is the tallest mountain in Massachusetts.

     

    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

    • Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. — Henry Van Dyke
    • Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. — Randy Pausch
    • Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have. — Catherine Pulsifer
    • Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. — Charles Dickens

  2. Every day should be a day of Thanks

    Comment November 26, 2020

    Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks. Among all the challenges that we face as people with hearing loss there are certainly brighter moments in every day — moments that deserve to be recorded in our Gratitude Journal.  — Monique Hammond

  3. When we realize how blessed and lucky we are

    2 November 26, 2020

    Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are. — Joyce Giraud

  4. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life

    Comment November 25, 2020

    Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie

     

    Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. — Alice Walker

     

    Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. — Maya Angelou

     

    Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.  — Joyce Giraud

     

    He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.  — Epictetus

     

    Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. — Theodore

    Roosevelt

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  5. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything

    Comment November 23, 2020

    When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. — Pittacus Lore

     

    You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton

     

    Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. — Martin Luther

     

    The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. — Barbara Kingsolver

     

    Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. — C.H. Spurgeon

     

    If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. — Henry David Thoreau

     

    To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G.K. Chesterton

     

    May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. — Nelson Mandela

     

    Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Aristotle

     

    If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. — Dr Roopleen

     

    Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. — Shigenori Kameoka

     

    Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be. — Jennifer Elisabeth

     

    It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things. — Maxime Lagacé

     

    Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. — Desmond Tutu

     

    I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. — Anne Frank

     

    Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. — Dale Carnegie

  6. It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop

    Comment November 22, 2020

    You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. — George Lorimer

     

    Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. — William James

     

    Choose to be optimistic; it feels better.  — Dalai Lama

     

    Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. — Jacques Prevert

     

    In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. — Robert Frost

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  7. The meaning of life is just to be alive

    4 November 21, 2020

    The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. — Alan Watts

     

    When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain. Gautama Buddha

     

    Jendhamuni at the summit of Wachusett Mountain in Massachusetts on November 15, 2020. It took us a little over an hour to reach the top of this mountain.

     

  8. Part of spiritual and emotional maturity

    Comment November 21, 2020

    Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened. – Jack Kornfield

  9. When it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys

    Comment November 21, 2020

    The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.  – Henri Nouwen

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