Top 163 Absorption Quotes & Sayings

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

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

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.

Splitting your meals up into smaller, more frequent portions will enable food absorption and utilization of nutrients.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

It is important to create credit absorption capacity rather than to just enhance lending targets.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.

In fact, studies show that vegans tend to get more iron than meat eaters. Vitamin C from fruits and vegetables increases iron absorption. Meanwhile, dairy products reduce iron absorption significantly.

Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.

Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

Blend all ingredients. Drink with probiotic straws to maximize the benefits of a healthy diet and support normal absorption and assimilation of nutrients in the gut.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.