Conversations, Reading Guides, VOLUME 12

Gratitude – Best Books on this Vital Practice!

Gratitude Best Books

With the Thanksgiving holiday only a week away in the United States, we offer this list of the best books on gratitude …

 *** What books on gratitude would you add to this list?
 

Gratefulness, The Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

David Steindl-Rast

Steindl-Rast does a wonderful job of exploring the relationship between prayer and that sense of gratefulness that comes with love, which is at the very center of what it means to be human. “To bless whatever there is, and for no other reason but simply because it is, that is what we are made for as human beings,” he writes. Connecting contemplation and action, he affirms that contemplation may best be realized by “acting in love.” “Thinking about God is important,” he states, but “acting in God leads to a deeper knowledge. Lovers are closer to love than scholars who merely reflect on love. It would be a bit awkward to reflect on kissing while you kiss.”

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