Angeles Arrien - Living in Gratitude: Mastering the Art of Giving Thanks Every Day, A Month-by-Month Guide

Angeles Arrien is one of the most gifted and generous teachers of our time. She brings forward the perennial wisdom of traditional cultures and gives it accessible, pragmatic application that is essential to the health of our contemporary society. Angeles Arrien is a rare and true wise elder. She embodies what she teaches.

In Living in Gratitude, Angeles Arrien once again gives us a treasury of wisdom and practical tools. Written with her trademark flair and love, this is a transformative book of month-by-month reflections and practices that effectively shows us how to integrate the healing power of gratitude into every day of our lives.

Living in Gratitude is a gift, both a vessel of perennial wisdom from many sources and a vehicle for grace. Angeles Arrien returns gratitude to its essential role for growth of the individual soul, but also to its rightful place as a practice for sustaining the ongoing creation of the world.

Michael Meade, author of Fate and Destiny and The World Behind the World

No wonder Angeles Arrien dedicated Living in Gratitude to her ancestors. Those of us who had the privilege of knowing our grandparents or great-grandparents will remember that gratitude was their spirituality long before anyone was talking about spirituality. It is the great merit of this book to help us find again this ancient portal to full human aliveness: grateful living.

Most people are grateful because theyre happy, but wise people are also happy because theyre grateful. Angeles Arrien is a wise person who reminds us beautifully of this happy fact.

Living in the most individualistic and often self-serving culture in human history has pushed humility and gratitude into the background of most modern life. Angeles Arriens Living in Gratitude shows a way to bring both back into the foreground. She shows us that real gratitude requires real commitment, over time, through the seasons of the year, and the seasons of our lives. This book will change your life.

Angeles Arrien brings to Living in Gratitude deep wisdom resulting from her decades of study of anthropology, mythology, and comparative religion. She offers a twelve-month program that utilizes the extraordinary transformative potential of gratitude. This is a unique book with a powerful spiritual message; weaving together the essence of perennial teachings with prayers and practical exercises, it will take the readers on a journey that will change their experience of everyday life.

Living in Gratitude by Angeles Arrien reminds us all that each day is a gift to be lived to its fullest. Arrien unearths the worlds greatest thinkers standing in wisdom traditions throughout the ages, and she designs unique practices that help us embody these teaching so we can make them our own.

Angeles Arrien is a national treasure. Period. Her wisdom and creative genius are legendary. Angie has been the guide and shepherd of the transformative process in untold numbers of individuals, and I stand in awe of her compassion, wit, and knowledge of the human condition.

The work of Angeles Arrien is pivotal at this time in history because it connects two worlds: the world of inner, personal transformation and the world of outer, social change. Angeles is a builder of the bridge between them. She is a guardian of the frontier where inner and outer meet. Whatever subject she touches glows with this awareness.

Angeles Arrien teaches from an inner state of nearness to the ancient ways of knowing. Through her attunement to the universal qualities of spirit such as generosity and gratitude, she helps us to recognize those qualities within ourselves.

Angeles Arrien, a teacher of great heart and great grace, is a beloved, compassionate, and charismatic visionary who has inspired untold numbers with her wisdom and guidelines for life based on creative syntheses of transpersonal and anthropological perspectives.

Angeles has a delightful way of synthesizing her considerable research into useful wisdom. She is an expert craftswoman in the art of weaving poetry, language derivatives, stories, and practical life suggestions into a rich mandala.

Angeles Arrien draws us back into our roots in nature ... to find the sources of our strength. She calls up the wisdom of the ancient warriors, healers, visionaries, and teachers to show us how to restore the balance in ourselves and in our environment.

Once in a while, one is privileged to meet a wise woman, and that woman is Angeles Arrien. She has a unique ability for understanding various points of knowledgefrom academic to business, to spiritual and indigenous knowledge. Her ability to bring all of these points of knowledge together in such thoughtful, relevant, and inspirational ways meets you where you are in your own life cycle. The world needs the knowledge she shares.

Angeles Arrien, anthropologist, author, and teacher, has dedicated her remarkable talents to the cultivation of spiritual growth and social consciousness. She has influenced generations of men and women to aspire to a greater good and now reminds us of the importance to live with gratitude, to test its healing powers for ourselves, and to recall that we are part of something greater than ourselves alone, a cosmos alive with mystery. I am grateful for her works and her remarkable presence.

Angeles Arriens work has inspired thousands of people to remember the profound and sacred promise of their own lives. Her work has been devoted to the essential similarities that exist within the worlds wisdom traditions. Angeles has been a tireless builder of bridges of understanding between people of diverse spiritual, cultural, ethnic, and generational traditions. She is a genius of the human spirit.

Angeles Arrien is a national treasure. Her teachings have evolved from the universal wisdom and values found in diverse cultures around the world. Her cross-cultural perspective is made accessible and relevant by her skillful and experiential approach. Her work is inspirational and defines a way of life that begins from within, transforming and cultivating the personal, professional, and relational aspects of ones life. The world needs more of what Angeles Arrien has to offer.