Quotes About Flow

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.

The rush of the river was a voice, a presence. Water flowed indifferent to the heave and plunge of the sun, the shrouded moon and the slow spin of the stars. The sound reached them in a song without words, and all effort to grasp its meaning was hopeless, for, like the water itself, one could not grasp hold of sound. The flow was ceaseless and immeasurable and just as stillness did not in fact exist, so neither did true, absolute silence.

Ask no question, the river shall answer.' 'Question the river, find the answer.

The big river rolls past our town, takes a slow look, and rolls away.

Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness—one where we feel our best and perform our best—it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.

What all this means is that learning the impossible is possible augments our ability to see ourselves doing the impossible, which triggers a systemic change in the body and the brain, which closes the gap between fantasy and reality. It also makes us significantly more flow prone.

So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.

Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I fairly floated in a daze, lines falling from my lips without conscious thought.

Sometimes feelings flow in directions we'd prefer they didn't.

Magic takes the path of least resistance.

Sometimes, it seemed almost as if this book wrote itself.

I released myself to the flow of the world's rhythm, not struggling to search, but simply letting my instinct guide me.

My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know.

In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.

the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.