Quotes About Immersion

I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.

I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it.

For instance, I could hold my nose, close my eyes, and jump blindly into the waters of some man's insides, submerging myself until his purpose becomes my purpose, his life, my life, and so on. One fine day I would float to the surface, quite drowned, and supremely happy with my newfound selfless self.

Or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

By bringing our daughters to France, we were actually sending them to a boot camp where children learn not just to speak, but to speak a lot, and well.

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.

Cuando llovía me entraba el agua hasta el alma

la isla lo invadía y lo gozaba con una tal intimidad que no era capaz de pensar o elegir. (La isla a mediodía)

If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.

That night Ana Iris and I go to a movie. We cannot understand the English but we both like the new theater's clean rugs.

If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.

but his main influence came from his continuous and intense presence, which produced a sense of direct participation in all of us.

Culture shock

If a human life is devoted to something, one tends to lose oneself in it. As one loses oneself in it, the more blissful one becomes.

victory is something one experiences everyday, if he immerses himself in the joy of his craft, and in his sincere quest for learning it. Blood, sweat, and tears are fine. But rather than bleeding from wounds, is it not better to bleed from passion? Rather than sweating from a maniacal adherence to "hard work," is it not better to sweat from an innocent immersion in one's craft? Rather than tears of pain, is it not better to have tears of joy?

Life does not happen around you. It is not a chronology of events. Perceiving life in this way keeps you on the edge of life. Ask yourself: What does it mean to LIVE? And you will discover that you've never really LIVED at all. Life is to be tasted. Drink it. Immerse yourself in it. And experience it for the very first time.

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

It's nice to invest yourself fully in whatever you're doing... I think it's best to try and give everything you've got; otherwise, what's the point?

I await a project where I'd have to deeply invest my emotions in.