fall into oneself
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To enter an introspective or meditative state.
Example Sentences
- "He fell into himself, his half-closed eyes looking into an edgeless nowhere."
- "He lost all sensation of time and space, fell into himself more completely than he had ever known possible, touched his life force with his consciousness for the first time."
- "Jot down a few sentences about your outer world, then fall into yourself; observe your inner thoughts and musings and then write from the part of you that is always watching."
- "The more you hold on to the everyday, the farther away you are from surrendering. Fall. Fall into yourself, into the deep spaces that lie within."
- "The celebrated Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, for example, in the 20th century will describe, almost hauntingly, his mid-life experience of falling into himself."
- "But you fall into yourself around these, these jokers. You become a mouse."