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• Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Skills, Energy, Movement

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Government, People, Political

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

  David Whyte

  Community, Heartfelt

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• The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Organization, Village

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

  Swanee Hunt

  Women, Mean, Voice

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• Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

  Zhuangzi

  Science, Unique, Law

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• I believe that nothing has been more wholesome for America, for our government, for our politics, than the increased participation of women.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, America, Government

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

  Susan C. Aldridge

  Teaching, Learning, Reflection

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• Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

  William Ames

  Blessing, Faithful, Unions

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

  David Cameron

  Integrity, Membership, Fairness

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• Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others.

  Joseph Campbell

  Meditation, Energy, Hoarding

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• The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, People, Titles

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• Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Operations, Protest

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.162, Tara Publishing

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• People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, Censorship, Kind

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• Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Liberty, Deceiving, States

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• The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Communication, Feelings

  "Essential McLuhan" edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, (p. 73), 1995.

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• It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Sports, May, Gains

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• There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Thinking, Purpose

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• I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think some of those life experiences influenced me in terms of the main character of The Flamethrowers. But for the parts where the community of artists are speaking above her level of participation, that probably came more out of my experience of being in New York in the '90s as an adult.

  Rachel Kushner

  Children, Character, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things with life, it is because they are reflections of the life of God; if there are beings endowed with intellect and will - like men and angels - it's because they are a participation of the Sovereign Intellect which is God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Angel, Reflection, Men

  "Religion Without God". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 86, 1928.

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• We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Environmental, Attention, Demand

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

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• Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Tyrants, Humanity

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.181

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• With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves.

  Harry Hay

  Perseverance, Class, Self

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• When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Drawing

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