Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God. Swami Vivekananda
Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness. Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? Hugo Ball
We take for granted the need to escape the self. Yet the self can also be a refuge. In totalitarian countries the great hunger is for private life. Absorption in the minutiae of an individual existence is the only refuge from the apocalyptic madhouse staged by maniacal saviors of humanity. Eric Hoffer
Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism is combined with absorption in the narrowest forms of practical activity. Vladimir Lenin
Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all. Adam Gopnik