Quotes About Flow

Don't fight forces; use them.

A building is a string of events belonging together.

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

You can't step into the same river twice.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.

I said here's the river I want to flow on, here's the direction I want to go, and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Life keeps moving, and to try to stay still is like trying to hold grains of sand in your hand.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

When I'm out there, it's not even me who is doing the acting and the wrestling and the moving. It is something that I feel like I see channels more than anything else. So, for me, I tune into the right frequency. I get turned on and we're ready for take off.

You know, Tupac would go into the studio and make like six or seven songs in one day. That's how he operated. He was real quick with his pen.