Quotes about Engagement

Being a writer is all about having something to say. And it'd better be interesting. If you don't have anything interesting to say, don't become a writer. Become something useful. Like a doctor.

She consented to rote memorization, but knew that it was at best the hollow shell of an education. She did the minimum work necessary to do well in her courses, and pursued other matters.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes.

We must begin to live fully and truly, every moment of our daily lives.

Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

mindfulness is not something that is only done in a meditation hall; it is also done in the kitchen, in the garden, when we are on the telephone, when we are driving a car, when we are doing the dishes. If

Each of us, for the most part, continues his daily life, contributing to the maintenance and consolidation of the machinery of production and consumption. We eat, drink, work, and divert ourselves, as if nothing is going to happen.

If there is a kiss cam on the screen, of course I'm going to watch it.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.