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Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life. -- James Cagney
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. -- Richard M. Weaver
Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness. -- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart -- Uthman ibn Affan
Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption is complete, that's nirvana. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Discrimination involves reflection and absorption. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. -- Wilfrid Laurier
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. -- Wilfrid Laurier
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion." -- Wilfrid Laurier
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators. -- Loretta Young
My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me. -- Mason Cooley
Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption. -- Mason Cooley
Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle. -- Benjamin Lewin
Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity. -- Mason Cooley
Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle. -- Benjamin Lewin
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed. -- Mason Cooley
Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins. -- Stephen Hawking
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . -- Timothy Keller
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption. -- Rita Mae Brown
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption. -- Ouida
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment. -- Mason Cooley
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . -- Timothy Keller
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. -- William Osler
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. -- Gail Godwin
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. -- Paul Reiser
These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. -- C. H. Dodd
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. -- George Pierce Baker
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. -- George Pierce Baker
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. -- Nikki Gemmell
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. -- John Hope Bryant
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. -- Richard Hofstadter
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. -- James Hunter
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization. -- Andrew Weil
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. -- Clifton Webb
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. -- Clifton Webb
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. -- Walter Lippmann
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. -- Harold E. Varmus
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end. -- Frederick Lenz
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. -- George Eliot
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? -- Hugo Ball
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. -- Nicole Holofcener
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
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. -- Nicole Holofcener
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
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter. -- Cole Weston
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
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption. -- Andrew Comiskey
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
When we don'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
But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage. -- Maria Konnikova
I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption. -- Anonymous
To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. -- Dani Shapiro
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others. -- Pope Francis
Blend all ingredients. Drink with probiotic straws to maximize the benefits of a healthy diet and support normal absorption and assimilation of nutrients in the gut. -- Mehmet Oz
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them -- Walter Benjamin
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
But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it? -- Maureen Lipman
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
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land. -- David Ben-Gurion
The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In fact, studies show that vegans tend to get more iron than meat eaters. Vitamin C from fruits and vegetables increases iron absorption. Meanwhile, dairy products reduce iron absorption significantly. -- Sharon Gannon
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 physical contact with this world anymore. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything. -- Stephen King
All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires. -- P.M. Forni
When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategic weapons for weight loss. Fiber keeps your colon healthy and reduces your body's absorption of toxins. -- Suzanne Somers
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness. -- Caitlin Thomas
I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things. -- John Darnielle
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 regulation of this process on the part of the organism. -- August Krogh
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 in our bodies, that is why we need green plants. -- Maximilian Bircher-Benner
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. -- Jack Kerouac
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 a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption. -- 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 selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward. -- Noel Coward

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