Quotes About Engagement

Making one's life into a meditation is different from using meditation to escape from life.

Charlar un poco es sólo ser simpático, ¿no? —Yo no sé charlar —dije.

And now if I don't know what someone is saying I ask them what they mean or I walk away.

I didn't reply to this either because Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well

No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.

What's the difference what you watch?" Praeger shot back. "When that stream of hypnotic electrons starts winging into your brain, you're finished, good-as-gone, condemned to hell. No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.

the longer wars last, the less popular they become.

Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space is revealed for the digging. In just this way, when experience opens us, it often feels violent and the urge, quite naturally, is to refill that opening, to make it the way it was. But every experience excavates a depth, which reveals its wisdom once opened to air.

Too many Western believers still unconsciously view the church like a cruise ship, with a large, well-trained staff looking after every need. The church was never intended to be a cruise ship! It was always meant to be more like a fishing boat, with everyone working, everyone helping to catch and clean fish, and everyone enjoying the satisfaction of knowing that they gave their all. In such a crew, there is loyalty and friendship centered around a common mission.

To align message with market is simply to communicate a message that resonates with your market.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

The physicality of storytelling must remain strong.

It's common sense: when you move in, you try to learn the neighborhood.

Lick a finger: feel the now.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply involved in a subject. The thing that saved me was that I had my camera by my side. It was there to remind me who I was and what I did. It separated me from them.

A los hijos no les hace ninguna gracia el estrés que el padre o la madre traen de su trabajo. Lo que desean y necesitan es su presencia. Desean que sus padres les dediquen tiempo.

Hoy observamos con mucha frecuencia un deterioro de la cultura de la conversación.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

suggestion of public service, even