Immersion Quotes

• 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

  Reality, Achieve, Metaphysical

  "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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• A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Courage, Learning

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• 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

  Success, Believe, Empowering

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• 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

  Technology, Views, Skills

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• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. 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

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Live Life, Thought Provoking, May

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• Better immersion than to live untouched.

  Tillie Olsen

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.293, Rutgers University Press

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• What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

  John Mason Brown

  Joy, Bigger Better, Endure

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• Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Compassion, Being Human

  Henri J. M. Nouwen, John S. Mogabgab (2012). “A Spirituality of Living: The Henri Nouwen Spirituality Series”, p.32, Upper Room Books

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• 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

  Truth, Writing, Self

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Vocabulary, Knowing

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• 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

  Creativity, Years, Creating

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• I wanted to work with somebody who seemed like he came from the same place that I did, which is that total immersion and learning about the world around, from this very gritty, dark side, and had access to that.

  Joe Manganiello

  Dark, World, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

  Octavio Paz

  Reality, Discovery, Giving

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• All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.

  Simon Mawer

  Faith, Lying, Philosophy

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• Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Soul, Alchemist

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment

  Quentin L. Cook

  Spiritual, Essentials, Scripture

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• 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

  Mean, Compassion, Vulnerable

  Donald P. McNeill, Douglas A. Morrison, Henri J. M. Nouwen (1982). “Compassion, a reflection on the Christian life”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

  Missing, Elements, Electronic Music

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• 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

  Two, People, Perfect

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• 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

  Letting Go, Creativity, Illumination

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• Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience.

  Selena Fox

  Thinking, Everyday, Take Time

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• Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Passion, Feelings, Matter

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• 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

  Perfect, Levels, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Wisdom, Self, Jewels

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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