Use This Video To Put Gratitude In Motion In Your Very Own Life [VIDEO] Use This Video To Put Gratitude In Motion In Your Very Own Life [VIDEO]
You think this is just another day in your life. It’s not just another day, its the one day that is given to you... Use This Video To Put Gratitude In Motion In Your Very Own Life [VIDEO]

You think this is just another day in your life. It’s not just another day, its the one day that is given to you today. It’s given to you its a gift. Its the only gift that you have right now, and the only appropriate response is gratefulness. If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life and the very last day, then you would have spent this day very well.

 

Begin by opening your eyes, and be surprised that you have eyes you can open. That incredible array of colours that is constantly offered to us for pure enjoyment. Look at the sky, we so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely we note how different it is from moment to moment with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather, even of the weather we don’t think of all the many nuances of weather. We just think of good weather and bad weather. This day right now is unique weather. Maybe a kind that will never exactly in that form come again. The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes; look at that.

 

Look at the faces of people whom you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom. Not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors. They go back so far. And in this present moment, on this day, all the people you meet – all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world flows together and meets you here. Like a life giving water, if you would only open your heart and drink.

 

Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch and there is electric light. You turn a facet and there is warm water and cold water, and drinkable water. It’s a gift that millions and millions in the world will never experience. So these are a just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which we can open your heart. And so I wish you you will open your heart to all these blessings and let them flow through you, that everyone whom you will meet on the street will be blessed by you. Just by your eyes, by your smile, by your touch, just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you. Then it will really be a good day!

Spoken by Brother David Steindl-Rast
Film by Louie Schwartzberg

Gratitude: The Short Film by Louie Schwartzberg from ecodads on Vimeo.

 

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