Tara Talks: The Practice of Gratitude as a Pathway to Happiness Whispering your gratitude, feel your sincerity becoming more and more real and alive. Feel in your body what it’s like when gratitude is flowing . . . is filling you. Notice the sense of your being, the unconfined quality of presence, of openness. Henri Nouwen writes: “The choice for gratitude rarely comes without some real effort. But each time I make it, the next choice is a little easier, a little freer, a little less self-consci