Br. David Steindl-Rast was born in 1926 in Vienna, Austria. In 1952, he immigrated to the United States, joined a Benedictine monastery, and practiced Zen. He is co-founder of the Center for Spiritual Studies and a recipient of the 1975 Martin Buber Award. He has been a guest on Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday. At present, Brother David serves the worldwide Network for Grateful Living through gratefulness.org, an interactive website with several thousand participants daily from more than 240 countries and territories. When not traveling as a spiritual teacher and giving lectures, he lives in the U.S. as a hermit.