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Brother David Stendell Ross is a voice I've wanted to hear again and anew.

We're in a season of renewal in the natural world and in spiritual traditions.

Both Easter and Passover this year are utterly transformed.

A Benedictine monk for over 60 years, Brother David was born by the 20th century's catastrophes.

A teacher beloved around the world, he makes useful distinctions, around experiences that are life-giving and resilience-making,

yet can feel absurd to speak of in a moment like this.

He calls joy, the happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

And his gratefulness is not an easy gratitude or thanksgiving, but a full-blooded, reality-based practice and choice.

I don't speak of the gift because not for everything that's given to you can you really be grateful.

It can't be grateful for a war in a given situation or violence or sickness.

So the key when people ask, can you be grateful for everything?

No, not for everything, but in every moment.

I'm Christa Tippett and this is on Beeing.

Brother David Stendell Ross is founder and senior advisor for a network for grateful living.

I traveled to Austria in 2015 to speak with him at the monastery Gut Eich priori in Sanct Gilgen, where he now spends most of each year.

You were born in France, Cuno?

Yes, that's correct.

In Vienna.

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