Absorption Quotes

91 quotes by 83 authors

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . — Timothy Keller
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs… — B.K.S. Iyengar
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a… — Noel Coward
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that… — Adam Gopnik
Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. — James Hunter
Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins. — Stephen Hawking
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators. — Loretta Young
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation,… — Alexander Crummell
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. — C. H. Dodd
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from… — William Osler
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. — Frederick Lenz
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… — Frederick Lenz
The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved… — Frederick Lenz
These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers. — Frederick Lenz
Discrimination involves reflection and absorption. — Frederick Lenz
Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition. — Frederick Lenz

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