num_pages: 240
description: A celebrated teacher and cofounder of one of the world's cutting-edge meditation centers reveals how to connect more fully to the world around us and experience contentment harmony joy and love - every minute of our lives.Usually people associate a sense of unbound presence with epiphanies in life-being present at a birth or a death. People lose themselves in sexual union in nature or in the presence of a heart-wrenching beauty. In those moments they forget to keep up the story about the one having the experience and all that is left is the actual experience.In Passionate Presence  internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Catherine Ingram shares her insights and wisdom for connecting more intimately to the experience of our daily worlds. Through her popular interactive Dharma Dialogues (dharma meaning truth or the way) she has helped thousands of spiritual seekers everywhere in their quest for awakening by encouraging them to give up the quest. Now she brings nearly thirty years of experience to a book that shows us how to recognize these everyday miracles and become more cognizant of life's greatest our own passionate presence. Based on non-dual teachings that rely on direct experience with numerous stories illustrating her points Ingram takes readers on an eye-opening journey that will help them o Know the seven traits of passionate silence tenderness discernment embodiment genuineness delight and wondero Relax in simple presence to dissolve barriers between people foster better communication and create inner peace and harmonyo Discover why true aloneness can never be lonelyo See how tender mercies can purge intense feelings of angerand much more.Filled with illuminating anecdotes and personal reflections Passionate Presence reveals our true natures and opens the doorway to the divine in all of us. Inspiring and profound it is certain to gain a wide and devoted readership.
language: English
title: Passionate Presence: Experiencing the Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness
publisher: Gotham