#involvement

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year. ↗

— David Brooks

#affection #connections #consciousness #happiness #information

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ↗

— John Clayton

#christian #comes #distant #ethnic #holiday

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. ↗

— Danny Glover

#believe #changes #i #involvement #vain

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#assumed #carter #case #confirmed #counsel

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#deal #fortunate #involvement #like #more

In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#around #assassination #close #country #dr

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement. ↗

— Arthur Hiller

#gotten #had #her #howard #involvement

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule. ↗

— Elinor Ostrom

#having #ignored #importance #involved #involvement

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#complete #counterpoint #involvement #itself #meaning

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern. ↗

— Amir Butler

#concern #conflicts #democracy #foreign #freedoms