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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

Yoga, Order, Essence

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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

Philosophy, Selfish, Drinking

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A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.

Maria Montessori

Children, Years, Two

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The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.

Bertrand Russell

Love, Men, Self

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Meditation, Important

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Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

Mason Cooley

Baby, Self, Resentment

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My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

Mason Cooley

Self, Selfishness, Self Absorption

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Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.

Sherry Turkle

Lying, Insecure, Mirrors

Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.279, MIT Press

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During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.

Louise J. Kaplan

Dream, Passion, Self

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Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

Mason Cooley

Lonely, Loneliness, Self

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Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

Mason Cooley

Self, Solitude, Isolation

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In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?

Patricia Hampl

Integrity, Writing, Mean

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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Harold E. Varmus

Discovery, Process, Passive

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The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

Thomas Merton

Children, Character, Reality

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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

Adam Gopnik

Sex, Writing, Self

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To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Richard Hofstadter

Self, Sick, Hazards

Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage

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[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that are eating away at the solidarity of the human community.

George Weigel

Jesus, Loneliness, Self

Source: eppc.org

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In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

Clifton Webb

Self, Attention, Justified

"Fictional character: Waldo Lydecker". "Laura", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area of understanding seems to be the actual physical mechanism. Lets target an explanation at an audience that has taken 1 year each of undergraduate physics and chemistry, plus calculus. Once we have something that is convincing at this level, we can work on how to communicate this to the interested public (i.e. those that hang out in the climate blogosphere). Willis Eschenbach’s help is needed in translating this for the WUWT crowd.

Judith Curry

Taken, Years, Games

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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

Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

Mark Helprin

Use, Pages, Rich

"Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto". Book by Mark Helprin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

Hyman Minsky

World, Ratios, Portfolios

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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Richard M. Weaver

Decay, Ease

Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

Michael Myers

Small Numbers, Years, Common Sense

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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

Photography, Mean, Color

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