Quotes About Flow

You can steer while still enjoying this glorious ride, but if you elect to fight it, you'll ultimately get pulled under by its current. This is true for every aspect of your life: The more you push against it, the more resistance you create.

Pay attention to the flow of your life.

ride with life like a fearless downhill skier who's at one with the snow-covered mountain.

trust your natural responses…then everything will fall into place.

wu-wei, or "not forcing," which means to take the line of least resistance in all of one's actions, and by doing so, create more strength.

move freely, unencumbered with thoughts about where you should be and how you should be acting.

Each day, practice letting go and seeing where you're directed. Take note of who shows up and when.

Let go of your identification with your stuff and with your accomplishments. Try instead to enjoy what you do and all that flows into your life simply for the pleasure of doing and observing the flow itself.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

Try letting life come to you

Rivers and streams are born of the ocean, and all creation is born of the Tao. Just as all water flows back to become the ocean, all creation flows back to become the Tao.

In some ways it feels like forever ago. There's that ebb and flow in my mind about other things, too. Where it feels close, then far away. The Benders, the train, the bus, Louise, the library, my mother...waves of memories that wash in, then out. Close, then far. Fear's like that, too.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.

Water)... no matter how wide or deep you cut it...it has no memory. No scar... it's all future, no past.

We were born to move—not merely to be transported,

When you are faced with a challenge that is far beyond your skills, the result is anxiety. When your skills are high but the challenges are low, you are bored. If you have low skills and the challenge is also low, you are able to do the job but are unlikely to become absorbed in it—apathy is the characteristic response. But when the skills are high and in balance with a stiff challenge, flow occurs. It is the Aristotelian principle on a two-dimensional plot.

Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.

The only sure path is to live consciously, moment to moment, as you let go of the outcome.

Instead of trying to freeze the present moment and hang on to it, we need to remember that life is a process of constantly letting go. The ego wants dependable rituals and people who stay the same. But to be free means that we enjoy this touch, this kiss, this sunrise, and then let it go. This is sometimes described as not letting the ground under your feet get too solid, not grasping for security or predictability.

All we can do is step from one moment to the next, make our best decision with what we know, and breathe.

She cried and her tears fell in the wrong direction. Not down over the light of her cheeks to the corners of her mouth, but away from the edges of her eyes to her ears and into the nest of her hair on the bed. She

Arteries are the body's thundering poetry.