Super Soul Special: Brother David Steindl-Rast: Happiness Begins with Gratitude

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Original Air Date: October 29, 2017 Benedictine monk, author and scholar Brother David Steindl-Rast guides us to the source of lasting joy and the essence of grateful living. He invites listeners to exercise gratefulness as a spiritual practice and a source of well-being that can be embraced every day. He also shares lessons on love, hope and life. Brother David Steindl-Rast says, “Hope is something very different from our hopes. Hopes are something we can imagine… but hope, in a truly spiritual sense, is openness for surprise.”

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most
0:07.8	valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey
0:16.5	to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:24.4	Today on Super Soul Conversations, 91-year-old author, scholar, and Benedictine monk,
0:31.8	brother David Steindlerost, is beloved the world over for his enduring message about gratefulness. It's the true source of lasting joy.
0:42.0	Today, Brother Steindle Ross invites us to embrace the spiritual practice of grateful living.
0:48.9	I know the study of gratitude has been your life's work, and as we now in the world are
0:53.4	searching for ways to find common ground,
0:56.8	you believe that all humans share the same yearning. What is that yearning? The yearning is basically,
1:05.3	I think, all humans would agree to be happy, to be happy, to be joyful. And I make a little distinction between happy and joyful because we say we want to be happy,
1:16.6	but we want to be happy with a happiness that lasts.
1:20.6	Yes.
1:21.6	And we are well aware that happiness just doesn't last.
1:25.6	Happiness cannot last.
1:29.3	So we have to find the happiness that lasts.
1:33.3	And that happiness I call joy.
1:36.3	And we can't find that, because we can find that joy even in the midst of unhappiness.
1:43.3	Yes.
1:46.9	So for you, is gratefulness a practice?
1:48.4	Yes.
1:50.3	Or just a way of being.
1:53.4	It's a way of being.
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