Life is a never ending miracle unfolding in every moment, and if we turn our attention to that silent presence in our heart, we can participate in that miracle.
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.
I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed - for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.
The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions
Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience.
I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U. S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the range of incomes from one worker to another. They would never do what is now a matter of normality: give one person millions, in some cases billions, while others have barely enough to make a living.
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.
There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?
Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world; it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness; we know it because God has revealed it.