Absorption Quotes - Page 6

• Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

  Valerie Solanas

  Lying, Philosophical, Self

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• In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Ideas, Progress, Scientist

  Werner Heisenberg (1971). “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations”

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• Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Missionary, Etc, Sides

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• What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Self, Expression, Might

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• I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Self, Rama

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• Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Knowing, Perfect, Consciousness

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• Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

  Loretta Young

  Self, Charm, Selfishness

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• Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

  Jacques Barzun

  Summer, Winter, Swim

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• 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

  Retirement, Home, Life Is

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• Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

  James Hunter

  Self, Joy, Servant Leadership

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• 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, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

  Alexander Crummell

  Spring, Greatness, Sky

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• Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.

  Stephen Hawking

  Vitamins, Dues

  "An Exceptional Man" by Roger Dobson, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. June 22, 2002.

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