We should be more grateful, and more forgiving
We should be more grateful, and more forgiving. Religion and folk wisdom have long held these feelings to be meritorious. New research suggests gratitude and forgiveness are in our self-interest.
— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)
In the book
The grand gestures of thanks are only ever expressions of that underlying recognition, not the thing itself; our mother Leah, naming her son Yehudah, gave what the sages call the first true expression of gratitude in the world. We are told, plainly, to be more grateful and more forgiving than comes naturally — even to grant that we may have a positive duty to feel grateful at all. And then — having given thanks for the plane — you fly it the way the One in the tower would fly it. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)