Quotes About Immersion

There are too many scenes where you think, It's a bit much. The movie crowds you; it doesn't give you room to have an honest emotion.

To know a thing, dip yourself in it like pen and ink, let it write you in its own words. Elizabeth Ayres

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

When we are reading we become immersed in stories both on an intellectual and emotional level and when we come back to our own skins, we feel a little changed'.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

You lose yourself and just about vanish and the painting asserts and fills and flows over the dam and down into the streambed of everything you have ever experienced and thought, and carries you both on a current that takes you into a country that neither of you have ever seen. Where you have never been.

What he'd noticed in all true masters was that the focus turned soon, or immediately, into full absorption by the act itself.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.