Quotes About Absorption

This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.

What made some movements succeed where others failed? Was it a sign of success when portions of a cause were absorbed by conventional politics, or was it a sign that the cause had been hijacked? When was compromise acceptable and when was it selling out, and

To each living thing the Mother gave a temporary form that would eventually dissolve, back once more into the infinite churning a cauldron of potential, where matters and energies are constantly exchanger and recombined. She made the world an image of that uterine cauldron, so that every life form sustains itself by absorbing, decomposing , and assimilating other forms.

The only time when you and I really entered into literature, entered the kingdom of letters, was when each of us sat as a child absorbed in the magic pages of a book: in some snug corner of a quiet room or sheltered in some lost recess of the seashore with the muffled sound of the wind and sea to concentrate our thought — that is reading, that is literature.

Ignorance is like a black hole that sucks everything into it, even illumination. Thus we can't see it, at least not directly.

The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a reader. The advice in this and other stylebooks is not so much on how to write as on how to revise.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

Mixed bean and seed sprouts: Packed with enzymes and other cofactors, they add crisp freshness to a salad and make the nutrients in the rest of the meal better absorbed.

He found he was now incapable of understanding a single word of the volumes he consulted; his very eyes stopped reading, and it seemed as if his mind, gorged with literature and art, refused to absorb any more.

Perspektiiviä pitäisi voida nauttia suonensisäisesti.

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.'12

What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much smaller world of our science and economics and politics that provides the so-called worldview in which we are used to working out our daily concerns.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.

When you have fun doing something, you should immerse yourself in it completely.