Quotes About Absorption

student wrote: If one is trying to do something really well, one becomes, first of all, interested in it, and later absorbed in it,which means that one forgets oneself in concentrating on what one is doing. But when one forgets oneself, oneself ceases to exist, since oneself is the only thing which causes oneself to exist. —Christmas Humphreys, Concentration and Meditation For

I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs

Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it—which comes to the same thing—is by writing in it.

beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read. However,

As if I were an incense stick incrementally burning off, first into smoke, and then becoming a part of the room.

Attention is no more than this - the power of giving your mind to what you are about

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Brain out, sponge in' fiction.

The structure of play absorbs the player into itself, and thus frees him from the burden of taking the initiative, which constitutes the actual strain of existence.

And the beauty of music is that it is both the source of creation and the means of absorbing it. In other words, by music the world was created, and by music it is withdrawn again into the source which has created it.

Fana, the merging in the ideal. In order to attain

One should be so absorbed in prayer that one is no longer aware of one's own self. There is nothing for such a person but the flow of Life; all one's thoughts are with God. One who still knows how intensely one is praying has not yet overcome the bonds of self

She glanced over abstractedly, still keeping company with her most recent thought.

With a book he was regardless of time.

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

her eyes devoured the following words

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

When I work I forget all the rest.