Episode 1: Gratitude and the Web of Being (13 min.)
"Gratitude is a real practice, as valid as yoga or Zen meditation or Sufi dancing -- if you take it seriously," Benedictine Br. David Steindl-Rast tells Tom Fox. Gratitude, he said, "starts with surprise. We deprive ourselves so much by not allowing ourselves to be surprised."
This is an encore presentation. This podcast was first aired in September 2006.
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Br. David Steindl-Rast
Benedictine Br. David Steindl-Rast is a spiritual guru, a wise and humble man with a seemingly endless heart. He was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1926, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology. In 1952 he followed his family to the United States and a year later joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. Steindl-Rast has brought spiritual depth into the lives of countless people whom he touches through his lectures, his workshops, and his writings.
He has been published widely. Two of his most widely recognized books are Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart. He co-authored Belonging to the Universe (winner of the 1992 American Book Award), a dialogue on new paradigm thinking in science and theology with physicist, Fritjof Capra. His most recent book is Words of Common Sense for Mind, Body and Soul.
