Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I expect hypobaric therapy will become one of the many treatments for Long COVID.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
“But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work,… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force… — Maximilian Bircher-Benner Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. — C. H. Dodd Copy Share Image
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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