Quotes About Absorption

Then their conversation turned to work and movies. I tried to contribute, but I had trouble focusing on the words. They just floated into my ear and accumulated there like wax.

Most jobs are interesting when you are learning them,' I said.

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

If he was not careful, this woman would fascinate him.

His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.

There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

It seemed as easy as that, if you came late to the world and found ready-made those things that other countries and peoples had taken so long to arrive at – writing, printing, universities, books, knowledge.

Ä°nsan yüreÄŸi ancak belli bir miktar umutsuzluk bar?nd?rabilir. Sünger bir kez emeceÄŸini emdi mi, üstünden deniz geçse oraya fazladan bir damla su bile sokamaz.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

the stories poured from him, and Lazlo listened. He listened the way a cactus drinks rain. In

He couldn't remember the other monks' names, or even the prayers that had been his vocation for decades, but the stories poured from him, and Lazlo listened. He listened the way a cactus drinks rain

All this seeing. All this relentless taking in.

I can see how she takes all that physical beauty in. Let's it become apart of her. Like breathing air and eating food, and then using that to make new cells and feed the old ones.

Part of the reason I got so thin is because my pancreas simply couldn't digest my food and so I couldn't absorb anything. It took three years to get this wonder medicine prescribed for me,

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

El problema es que el niño es una esponja que registra y absorbe indiscriminadamente todo lo que ve [...] El niño formado en la imagen se reduce a ser un hombre que no lee , y, por lo tanto, la mayoría de las veces, es un ser «reblandecido por la televisión», adicto de por vida a los videojuegos.

The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void.

Lo maravilloso de un bebé es que es un intelectual puro. Aprende cualquier cosa con total imparcialidad, sin ningún prejuicio.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in the theater.

Some people breathe through their mouth, some breathe through their nose — I breathe through the pages of a book.

The mark of good writing, in my opinion, is that the reader is not aware that the story has been written; as he reads, the ideas and images flow into his mind as if he were living them.