Quotes About Flow

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

Our work for God is to flow from loving God; thus, we work with Him instead of for Him.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

One works without thinking how to work.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

We don't have to struggle or force situations to go our way. Instead, we can intend for everything to work out as it should, take action, and then allow opportunities to spontaneously emerge.

When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.