Quotes About Absorption

When I'm shooting, that's all I do.

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.

In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.

There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

entered a kind of trance of not-herselfness.

Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.

carbon absorption associated with the livestock industry's deforestation should be accounted for:

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

The girl was absorbed in him, without consciousness or shame.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Leo. Es como una enfermedad. Leo todo lo que cae en las manos, bajo los ojos: diarios, libros escolares, carteles, pedazos de papel encontrados por la calle, recetas de cocina, libros infantiles.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

He picked something out of everything he read.

Maybe anything could become the most beautiful thing in the world if you gave in fully, let it take you over, let it be all you had.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

he was observing something while I, evidently, was entirely immersed in being it.

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.