SONGS OF GRATITUDE how poets connect us to the pulse of praise

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 damaru. From those vibrations [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]