Quotes about Absorption

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

The first thing you have to do is throw yourself into whatever it is you're doing.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Like the creation, man's games are an expression of freedom . . . for playing relates to the joy of the creator with his creation and the pleasure of the player with his game. Like creation, games combine sincerity and mirth, suspense and relaxation. The player is wholly absorbed in his game and takes it seriously, yet at the same time he transcends himself and his game, for it is after all only a game.22

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.