ercise in self-deception. Without gratitude, spiritual practice becomes joyless. Compassion, attention, and gratitude each point in the same ultimate direction from a different point on the map of human existence. If you practice any ...

... gratitude. Gratitude. As we progress through the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Year's Day — and a new century — it is the sentiment that perhaps dominates all others. We are thankful for what we've overcome, what ...

... gratitude. can. attitude. of. gratitude. Kate Holcombe, co-director of Healing Yoga Foundation in San Francisco, received this simple gratitude meditation from her teacher, T. K. V. Desikachar, and offers it to you here. Try it before or ...

... gratitude. Gratitude is the sweetest of all the practices for living the dharma in daily life and the most easily cultivated, requiring the least sacrifice for what is gained in return. It is a very powerful form of mindfulness practice ...

... gratitude. Just why are we not willing to express our gratitude, to say "thank you" for a small favor, to write a letter of appreciation, to go a bit out of our way to be gracious and kind? Gratitude can become a habit at any age of ...

... Gratitude for the grace of conscious embodiment evolves into the practice of selfless gratitude, in which your concerns slowly but surely shift from being mostly about yourself and those close to you to being about all living beings. As ...

... gratitude ratio." Do you experience the good things in your life in true proportion to the bad things? Or do the bad things receive a disproportionate amount of your attention, such that you have a distorted sense of your life? It can ...

Great Being Humanity. After showing why I conceive " veneration and gratitude " are not due to Humanity, I supposed an opponent to exclaim (putting the passage within quotation-marks), " But surely 'veneration and gratitude' are due ...

... gratitude lists. Well, I wasn't — in part because the idea of any more lists was just too overwhelming. I was already keeping a shopping list, an errands list and, ever since my estrogen levels plummeted, a list of daily reminders. Yet ...

... gratitude, gratitude comes to me. A cognitive approach to gratitude is so easy and obvious, it seems hardly worth mentioning. Yet I'll bet you don't know a single person who does it regularly. Simply develop the habit of counting your ...