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Catherine Ingram Quotes:

Catherine Ingram quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. 1952

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In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

Topics: Anger, Faces, Response

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Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

source: - Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.37, Penguin

Topics: Real, Giving, Generosity

The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

source: - Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.165, Penguin

Topics: Teacher, Laughing, People

The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.

source: - Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.22, Penguin

Topics: Art, Ambition, Creativity, Quiet Heart

When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.

source: - Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.170, Penguin

Topics: Speak, Walks

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

Topics: Way, Needs, Harmony

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