John Carver Show - Want to be happy? Be Grateful!

This show will help you look at gratefulness in a different way.  David Steind-Rast is a monk who has his thumb on being happy in life.  

Brother David Steindl-Rast has been a practicing Benedictine monk for over half a century and was one of the first Vatican-sanctioned delegates to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue. He is a recipient of the Martin Buber Award for his outstanding role in building bridges between religious traditions, and serves as a senior member of the Mount Savior Monastery in Elmira, New York.

Born in Austria in 1926, Br. David came of age during the Nazi occupation. Years later, he would write of the brutality of this experience as compelling him to contemplate, "the existential situation designed to hide, to disguise, and to camouflage our confrontation with death."

“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” 

“Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted."

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.”