Quotes About Immersion

The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.

You can live that life as if you've always been there and the book will never be returned." - Mrs. Elm

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.Thus all there is to it .

Satisfaction comes from emptying ourselves into things.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Go where events flow fastest. Specifically what does that mean? It means, simply, make contact with people. Get involved. Don't be a sideliner, watching events flow past. Plunge into the events yourself.

This book has been designed not merely to be read but to be experienced.

There was something nice about a man who was absorbed by a good book.

Ogra?ujem se, utišavam, slušam muziku. ?udno djeluje na mene, gotovo hipnoti?no, s njom se ne sporim. Ništa joj ne mogu. Nemjerljiva je, sveobuhvatna, strašna po snazi, ne mogu da je odvojim, ne mogu da je doživljavam kao nešto izvan sebe, useljava mi se u krv, dišem njome

All that reading took. It became as basic as any other need. To be lost in a novel meant you were not lost in your own life, the drafty, disorganized, lumbering bus of a house, the disinterested parents.

She read with "abandon," it would probably be called, though when you read a book you didn't abandon anything; instead, you marshaled it all.

It was like some kind of full-mind, full-body fuck. That was what it was like when your entire self was engaged. That was what it was like to pay attention.

It did something else that art is supposed to do. Absorb you.

To be lost in a novel meant you were not lost in your own life.

Once they take you and you taste the food…you cannot come back. You are changed…and live with them for ever. —The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz (1911)

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

To die is to be eternally immersed in Love.

Men are accustomed to making objective assessments of devastating situations, as long as they are not immersed in them. Rare is he who maintains objectivity in the midst of personal affliction.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

Personally, I didn't take a single photograph while I was there, but that's not all that unusual for me. I suppose my aversion to snapping pictures may have something to do with shaky hands and blurry results, but there's another reason: The act of lifting up the camera and positioning it between me and the object of my interest separates me from the experience.

E. Lawrence wrote that "happiness is absorption": I

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

they immersed themselves paradoxically in vision-directed reality testing: no rose-colored glasses, no blind spots, no positive thinking. Ruthless attention to reality was the common path to attaining their visions.

the library all alone, reading