Quotes About Engagement

Participant. A participant is active, a part of the process, and a necessary component of the magical experience. This is how it should be. No magic happens unless the participant perceives it as magical, so she can never be a mere spectator.

I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Teachers can teach only when students want to learn. No one can help a student who does not want to learn just

Just sit in one place and pay attention to all that I throw light on. The more attention you pay, the more you will want to know.

Business is about seduction. To increase market size, we have to seduce customers who have never used our product or service.

By introducing the idea of immortality and rebirth in Chapter 2 of The Gita, Krishna changes the scope of the discussion, for without death serving as a boundary, there is no fear, no yearning for food or meaning, nowhere to come from, or go to, for the end is no longer the end and the beginning is no longer the beginning. Rather than change the world that defies control, rather than seek validation from things temporary, we engage, observe, discover and enjoy.

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.

I'm waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined.

Part of universal hospitality is in the practice of befriending other religious traditions and practices, while remaining deeply grounded. Brent Bill thinks Christians need to engage in "theological hospitality," that we "should be open and welcoming…instead of starting with the theological differences that divide us.

We all knew Evelyn as a woman who grabbed life with both hands," the elderly priest said, "whether she was winning ballroom dance competitions or skewering politicians for The Downey Eagle.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring in his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

Why was he here? Why was he always, always, always around? Didn't he have a life? Didn't he have anything better to do?

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Activists from all over the world--the known & the unknown--would find their way to the Kochiyamas' Fri & Sat night open houses. 'People were everywhere, eating, talking, laughing, spilling out into the hallway [outside their apt]. People were even int he bathroom. You couldn't close the front door bc there were so many people inside,' recalled Herman Ferguson. The Kochiyamas' apt also became a central meeting place for the Movement.

You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.

That conference you're going

To learn more about them, people should use you.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.