It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.
The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself. . . in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.
Communion with God does not imply turning off your mind but turning it on - to be renewed in our minds. We're to love God with all our mind as well as heart. So true communion with God empowers hard work with the Bible, rather than bypassing work in favor of pure passivity.
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
Television is a passivity.
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.
It is passivity that dulls feeling.
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.
