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Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment -- Quentin L. Cook
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. -- Gail Sheehy
Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined. -- Quentin L. Cook
BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills. -- Moses
Healthier team members get a bigger food discount. We give our sickest team members an option to go through what we call the Total Health Immersion, where we take them off for a week, and we do intensive diet-and-lifestyle education. -- John Mackey
Better immersion than to live untouched. -- Tillie Olsen
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. -- Henri Nouwen
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. -- Leo Buscaglia
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. -- Paulo Coelho
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter. -- Cynthia Ozick
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible. -- Richard Powers
This is what love was supposed to feel like.This perfect immersion of two people who were ready and willing to become a part of each other. -- A. Meredith Walters
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music. -- Lukas Foss
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. -- Margaret Atwood
We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto. -- Newt Gingrich
Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories? -- Todd Gitlin
I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts. -- Jordan Belfort
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there. -- Paulo Coelho
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.... -- Walter Benjamin
The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion. -- Ken Wilber
I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia is that it's the result of complete immersion. I was there for the two years that it took me to write that book. -- James Ellroy
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. -- Brian Eno
The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience. -- Selena Fox
Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. -- Sara Sheridan
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. -- Tatiana Maslany
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. -- Audrey Niffenegger
It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched. -- Tillie Olsen
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality. -- Timothy Keller
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common. -- Werner Herzog
Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again. -- David A. Bednar
The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion. -- Adoniram Judson
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. -- Karen Russell
Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to. -- Timothy Keller
We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion. -- Bryant McGill
The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church. -- John Calvin
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. -- Sarah Stillman
My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless. -- Swami Vivekananda
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. -- Terence McKenna
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy. -- Chris Wedge
People once said they were in psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies -- R. Z. Sheppard
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have. -- Clive Davis
When the sex is persuasively rendered, it tends to read autobiographically, and there are limits to my desire for immersion in a stranger's biochemistry. -- Jonathan Franzen
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age. -- Garry Kasparov
April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never. -- Franz Kafka
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. -- Henri Nouwen
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. -- Laozi
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality. -- Thom Mayne
People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion. -- John Ridley
A true spirituality is convinced that, against all odds, ecstasy, not misery, is our destiny. Spirituality is baptism by immersion in the stunningness and promise and beauty of life. -- Daniel Maguire
By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality. -- Ray Kurzweil
Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims. -- Annia Ciezadlo
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion. -- Adoniram Judson
I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that. -- Rick Alverson
We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority. -- David A. Bednar
I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want. -- Rick Remender
There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself. -- James Mangold
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent. -- Thomas Merton
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once. -- Antoni Tapies

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