Quotes About Involvement

Everyone Has Wisdom Enough to Manage the Affairs of His Neighbors

All human livings in industrial society are ultimately based on agricultural production and mineral extraction. One of the ways these processes are transferred upward and outward is through endless cycles of buying and selling. Which is to say that one cannot live in this kind of world without being involved in these cycles, nearly or remotely.

Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although our scope of involvement may extend to numerous and diverse fields of interest and concern, as long as the notion of having predominates, our being remains empty and superficial.

Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.

He said it was the kind of book you made your own.

The only perspective is to really be there.

Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said.

I am trying to participate

Es que a veces la gente utiliza el pensamiento para no implicarse en la vida.

Do you always think this much, Charlie?" "Is that bad?" I just wanted someone to tell me the truth. "Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life." Is that bad? Yes.

É só que às vezes as pessoas usam o pensamento para não participar da vida.

I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Parfois, on se réfugie derrière ses pensées pour ne pas avoir à s'impliquer.

Es que a veces la gente usa el pensamiento para no participar en la vida.

We derive the greatest pleasure and fulfillment when all our faculties are drawn together into our life's work. In this state of absorption, we experience extraordinary satisfaction. We human beings are attracted to the experience of intense involvement. The outcome of this involvement, says Hokusai, is sublime. "By ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature." Hokusai's lesson, finally, is that a life of passion for dharma is a fulfilled

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

No involvement, no commitment.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration

Every sin is the result of a colaboration

If you're gonna play, play. Don't play!

The ladder tilts the opposite way, like it doesn't want to be involved in anything this ugly, and all of this is in the slowest possible motion for Lewis, his head snapping as many pictures as it can on the way down, like they can stack up under him, break his fall.

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

Bring to the table what you want to take away from the table!

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.