Quotes About Absorption

La añoranza no intensifica la actividad de la memoria, no suscita recuerdos, se basta a sí misma, a su propia emoción, absorbida como está por su propio sufrimiento.

Er spürte an ihren Lippen den herben Geruch des Fiebers und atmete ihn ein, als wollte er die Intimität ihres Körpers ganz in sich aufnehmen.

And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story.

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.

She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur'an, something troubled in me became still.

I read every book I could find. I picked up stuff like a Hoover, and remembered it out of the sheer joy of finding out that the universe is stuffed with interest.

Be like the earth. When the rain comes, the earth simply opens up to the rain and soaks it all in.

Looking deeply means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

It's a sponge and I'm a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don't just have square pants, everything about me is squarish because I'm part of a wall.

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The trick could sometimes be her phone, her (and everyone else's) fortress of solitude, and a practiced absorption in it.

Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?

want to lose myself in the work.' Andrew

This is the essence of Qigong: a total absorption of the senses and spirit. With this absorption comes a rebalancing.