Quotes About Absorption

Fear, worry, anxiety these form the central core of individualized selfhood. Fear cannot be got rid of by personal effort, but only by the ego's absorption in a cause greater than its own interests. Absorption in any cause will rid the mind of some of its fears; but only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it of all fear.

A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

the place of a history or tradition, we got instead the talk of "values" only, as though those values came from nowhere or could be invented afresh. In the name of great openness, we became close-minded, and in the name of progress, we absorbed ideas that turned out to be highly regressive.

Information can get from a professors lecture notes and into a student's notebook without passing through the mind of either.

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate. TAKEAWAY

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes said Lippmann's pieces were like flypaper: "If I touch it, I am stuck till I finish it.

I always advise students who like to read that they should read everything form license plates on cars to signs on the highway, fiction, nonfiction, newspapers, magazines—I mean everything. You never know what you might learn or when and where you can use the information.

More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension.

Now it is known that we cannot absorb some of the most important nutrients in salad greens unless the dressing or the meal it's eaten with contains some type of fat. Olive oil, according to a 2012 Purdue University study, does the best job of making those compounds more bioavailable. It takes almost seven times more soybean oil, by contrast, to get the same results. Soybean oil is the most common oil in commercial salad dressings.

There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

Here is where I become more than an observer and enter the story in my own right.

Consider the following rabbinic parable: There are four types among those who sit in the presence of the rabbis: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. "The sponge," which soaks up everything. "The funnel," which takes in at this end and lets out at the other. "The strainer," which lets out the wine and retains the dregs. "The sieve," which removes the chaff and retains the fine flour. 19

The child should never be required to learn the name of anything in the nature-study work; but the name should be used so often and so naturally in his presence, that he will learn it without being conscious of the process

A leader had to stay alert and aware of the enemy who lived all around his people, had to enforce rules and agreements. Had to decide if the humans needed to be exterminated. And a leader ran the risk of absorbing too much that was human, becoming too much like the enemy.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.