Presence: Stop, Look, Go

Last month, in my post for Christmas Day, I wrote “Happiness and Gratitude”.

That post featured the beautiful TED talk of David Steindl-Rast.

Today a brief story of a moment of presence, around his use of the phrase:

Stop, Look, Go

David’s TED talk is about the secret to being happy being to be grateful. He says:

“We can be people who live gratefully. Grateful living, that is the thing. And how can we live gratefully? By experiencing, by becoming aware that every moment is a given moment, as we say. It’s a gift….

Now, we say the gift within this gift is really the opportunity. What 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. Opportunity is the gift within every gift..

..we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity, and even when we are confronted with something that is terribly difficult, we can rise to this occasion and respond to the opportunity that is given to us. It isn’t as bad as it might seem.

..So how can we find a method that will harness this? How can each one of us find a method for living gratefully, not just…