Absorption Quotes

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Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations. — William George Jordan
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow,… — Medard Boss
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. — George P. Baker
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the… — Swami Vivekananda
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. — Clifton Webb
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… — Mark Vonnegut
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at… — Mark Rippetoe
When we donâ€™t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions. — Zeena Schreck
Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several… — Leslie Jamison
The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell… — Maximilian Bircher-Benner
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. — John Hope Bryant
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how… — Humphrey Bogart
Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life. — James Cagney
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become… — P. M. Forni
Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation.… — Nathaniel Dorsky
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption. — Ouida
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… — August Krogh
To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die-to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that… — Philip Kapleau
And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise. — Joan Wickersham

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