We all want to be happy, says David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, looking where you're going, and above all ...

KATE OLSON, correspondent: On a recent Saturday morning at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley, California, church members and neighbors gathered to hear Brother David talk about living “a ...

"Gratitude is a real practice, as valid as yoga or Zen meditation or Sufi dancing -- if you take it seriously," Br. Steindl-Rast tells Tom Fox. Gratitude, he said, "starts with surprise. We deprive ...

A popular TED Talk lecture extolling the virtues of gratitude has been viewed nearly 6 million times on that organization’s website. Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, says, “It is not ...

The enigmatic title of Benedictine Br. David Steindl-Rast's new memoir, i am through you so i, is taken from a line of e.e. cummings' poetry and was selected because it sums up the author's belief: I ...

This Catholic Benedictine monk says grateful living is a spiritual practice. For decades Brother David has lived part of his life as a hermit, in prayer and contemplation and writing books. The other ...