Quotes about Absorption

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

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.

She listens to him with great intensity because she is paying no attention to him at all.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.