Quotes About Engagement

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.

The most inspirational feeling I can come up with is.......The feeling of presence.

The practice is simple. Whatever you're doing, do that with total awareness.

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

Being --- a state that is open to life yet connected to this moment" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret

Why do I always forget that traffic is a social affair?

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.