Gratefulness! 想快樂？感謝吧！

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前陣子收到友人訴說恐有憂鬱症狀況，我發現只要是人，或多或少都有心情低落不知怎麼快樂的時候吧!聊了好一會兒，其實我也不知道對她是否有幫助，剛好看到這位智者David Steindl-Rast演說，個人覺得受益良多，想快樂？感謝吧！

There is something I know about everyone of you and that's very central to your concerns,
and that is that all of us want to be happy.

We all know quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy,
and they are not happy.
Because they want something else or they want more of the same.
And we all know people who have lots of misfortune, misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have and they are deeply happy.
They radiate happiness. You are surprised. (散發/閃耀）
Why? Because they are grateful.

So it is not happiness that make us grateful!
It's gratefulness that makes us happy.
We can be people who live gratefully.
Grateful living,that is the thing.

You are really grateful for is the opportunity, not the thing that is given to you,because if that thing were somewhere else and you didn't have the opportunity to enjoy it, to do something with it, you wouldn't be grateful for it.
You find that most of the time, what is given to us, is opportunity to enjoy, and we only miss it because we are rushing through life and we are not stopping to see the opportunity.

The way is "Stop.Look.Go"
When you stop, then the next thing is to look. You look. You open your eyes. You open your ears. You open your nose. You open all your senses for this wonderful richness that is given to us.
There is no end to it, and that is what life is all about, to enjoy, to enjoy what is given to us,
And then we can also open our hearts, our hearts for the opportunities, for the opportunities also to help others, to make others happy, because nothing makes us more happy than when all of us are happy.

引用 TED中英字幕: 想快樂？感謝吧！