Quotes About Engagement

To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.

Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.

My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.

Buddhist concept of mindfulness means precisely a way of being in which one is fully concentrated on everything one is doing at any given moment, whether it is planting a seed or cleaning a room or eating. Or as a Zen master has said: "When I sleep I sleep, when I eat I eat …" 10.

Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endless

Call a random number and say "Get ready because I am". Call back in 10 minutes and ask if they are ready yet.

Is reading a sport?

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

threatened to bore them. That policy did not make for an active social life.

Let me enjoy my fan-wanking. Your what? Let me arrange the story to meet my own personal needs.

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind', first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community; second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near; and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

Las decisiones sobre asuntosimportantes no las debe tomar una sola persona. Deben discutirse entre muchas.

Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they're just really piss poor, I get swept up in them and I'm gone.

I heard from many girls, just as many inquiries were made by boys, and men and women.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2015/10/15/like-good-neighbor-communication-there/dwAHrxdvqZYPPqwUCnrlHL/story.html#comments

la croyance en des « différences irréductibles » nous engage, sans que nous le voulions, sur une voie périlleuse et perverse, qui conduit à abolir la notion d'universalité, et même celle d'humanité.

Le plus important dans une Å"uvre littéraire, ce n'était pas le message que l'auteur avait souhaité nous transmettre, mais les nourritures intellectuelles et affectives que chaque lecteur pouvait y puiser lui-même.

art practices are participatory as well as testimonial.

Many can argue; not many converse

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.

The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God.