This participation may be objective or non-objective. Objective participation is related to what we can view objectively. Non-objective participation is subjective participation. Feeling is not passive, feeling is participation. But participation is more than feeling.
Participation is active engagement in the world.
Marcel says that personal identity includes both the objective identity in the outer world, and the felt quality of identity in the inner world. A felt quality, or a quality of feeling, is not a mental object, because a person s feeling cannot be separated from what the person feels. A felt quality is a unity, which cannot be dissolved by primary reflection. Contemplation is a mode of participation in which the duality of the inner and outer world are transcended. Contemplation is an inward regrouping, or ingathering, of mental resources.