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
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah 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 easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and… — Andrew Comiskey Copy Share Image
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. — 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
To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In fact, studies show that vegans tend to get more iron than meat eaters. Vitamin C from fruits and vegetables increases iron… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts… — Nathaniel Dorsky 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
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
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
“The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice… — Anālayo 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
“I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in… — Anne Rice 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
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
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
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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