Quotes About Engagement

People everywhere do not concern themselves much beyond the common round of everyday, and this is the chief problem for a democratic government, whose success depends upon an informed and responsible citizenry.

LIFE'S work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.

The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face-to-face.

One piece of advice that Don Juan gave to Carlos Casteneda was to do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all.

With the global economy in chaos and the environment of the planet at risk, with war raging and suffering escalating, it is time for each of us in our own lives to take the leap and do whatever we can to help turn things around.

Whatever you're given can wake you up or put you to sleep. That's the challenge of now: What are you going to do with what you have already—your body, your speech, your mind?

Everything in our lives can wake us up or put us to sleep, and basically it's up to us to let it wake us up.

Instead of reacting aggressively when we're provoked, endlessly perpetuating the cycle of pain, we trust that we can engage with others from a place of curiosity and caring and in that way contact their innate decency and wisdom.

We can meet our match with a poodle or with a raging guard dog, but the interesting question is—what happens next?

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That's not considered to be a problem; the point is to see it.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.