Quotes about Absorption

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

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.