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Rapt (rapt)

Common clue: Entranced

Definition: Deeply moved with emotion or completely absorbed in thought.




Photo by Ernie Seckinger, http://www.zebra.net/~ernie.seckinger/ConcordPhotos/Waldenphotos.html, Copyright 2001

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller’s wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance. I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)