Quotes About Immersion

Human initiative is not canceled by God redeeming us; it is heightened by immersion in the flow of God's life.

I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.

As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she's not in the room any more, she's inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.

To enter the realm of play, we must give ourselves to something or someone and turn away from all else. It is both a pledge and a betrayal.

Real world signore. You're in it tonight

To the fish, the sea is air.

Nu te gândi la muzic?.Trebuie doar s? o simÈ›i .Las-o s? se scurg? peste tine ca apa m?rii,fara a încerca s? o înÈ›elegi .

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

For in that little while Port William sank into me, becoming one with the matter and light, and the darkness, of my mind, never again to be far from my thoughts, no matter where I went or what I did.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading

Dip him in the river who loves water.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

He read with a similar relaxed, long-haul attentiveness. We

If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.

As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to—those that granted me a certain cachet and income while keeping me from fundamental responsibilities. This is what I excelled at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking.

I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.

Losing yourself in a book is the best

when Sierra Russell was into a book, she was totally into it. She practically crawled between the covers to live with the characters.

Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep he from fracturing into a thousand little pieces?

Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep her from fracturing into a thousand little pieces?

The reading part of her feels private, between her and the characters in a book.

It was all there. I wanted to live in this land. I had to live there, and master the language.

It's part of being a watcher, forgetting who you are and putting yourself in the thing you are watching. That