Quotes About Absorption

I couldn't keep it out and stopped trying. I couldn't keep anything out, I realized, and that was something I loved about Africa. The way it got at you from the outside in and never let up, and never let you go.

Perhaps worst of all, excellent students were betraying their individuality and the development of whatever unique talents they might possess to play the "school game." They were functioning like computers: experts at absorbing what the teacher put forth, sorting out what she wanted back, and regurgitating it in the manner in which she most liked to receive it.

The sponge of my heart had been filled up sometime last evening and had begun to drip.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge men's consciousness.

Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

To know a thing, dip yourself in it like pen and ink, let it write you in its own words. Elizabeth Ayres

When you're talking about the culture, maybe there is something that just permeates sort of thing, you know you pass it on or take it in, without ever being aware of it. - Ivan Paveli?, Croatia

What he'd noticed in all true masters was that the focus turned soon, or immediately, into full absorption by the act itself.

What he'd noticed in all true masters was that the focus turned soon, or immediately, into full absorption by the act itself. The actor surrendered, and it was as if, like a change in tide, the energy was now flowing in the opposite direction-from the river, or the basketball court, or the painting. Flowing into the one who was doing. It swept her up and carried her. It fueled her, and in the most intense moments allowed her to relax

Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.