"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."

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

Catherine Ingram

#Teacher Quotes #Laughing Quotes #People Quotes

“Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.”
“With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.”
“But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.”
“We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.”
“Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.”
“Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.”
“The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 209, 1929.
“To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments.”

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