Super Soul Summer: Brother David Steindl-Rast: Happiness Begins With Grattitude

Super Soul Summer: Brother David Steindl-Rast: Happiness Begins With Grattitude

Author: Oprah August 20, 2025 Duration: 29:04
Original Air Date: October 29, 2017 
Enjoy this episode, specially selected for our Super Soul Summer—a series celebrating some of the greatest Super Soul moments and messages to inspire and uplift your spirit. 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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