Quotes About Flow

This interruption broke the flow of whatever Redd was trying to tell them. And, by Navajo standards, such an interruption was rude. One let a speaker finish, and then waited to make sure he was indeed finished, before one spoke. But then Janet Pete was really Navajo only by blood and birth. She hadn't been raised on the Reservation in the Navajo Way. Had

Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.

the thought occurred to him that life was like a river. Some people sailed on it slowly, some quickly, and some capsized. (Hemulen)

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.

Calligraphy," said Plato, "is the physical manifestation of an architecture of the soul." That being so, mine must be a turf-and-wattle kind of soul, since my handwriting would be disowned by a backward cat; whereas yours, particularly on your charts, has a most elegant flow and clarity, the outward form of a soul that might have conceived the Parthenon.

Sometimes the current even starts to flow in the other direction: sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter.

Why not?" "Because I'm not a broken branch. Dead things go downstream. That's a funeral procession on that creek. If we surrender to the current, we're doomed." He pointed his finger stump in the direction of the coast. "Everything tends that way. But we've got to fight it, because down there is death.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

Life is the train and not the station.

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures. But a love with no name and no explanation like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course, but simply flows onwards. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

They have the qualities of water: flowing around rocks, adapting to the course of the river, sometimes forming into a lake until the hollow fills to overflowing, and they can continue on their way, because water never forgets that the sea is its destiny and that sooner or later it must be reached.

You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)

Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe -- that's what I said at our first meeting -- simply believe that you can.

Relax, allow the mind to become empty, and surprise yourself with the great treasure that begins to flow from your soul.

He hadn't planned anything like that, and when things happen without planning or expectations they are that much more enjoyable and worthwhile—talking to a stranger without an eye to any romantic connection had allowed things to flow more naturally.

Ksatria cahaya kadang-kadang berperilaku seperti air, mengalir memutari penghalang jalannya. Aliran air sungai menyesuaikan diri dengan alur apa pun yang tampak mungkin, tetapi sang sungai tak pernah melupakan tujuannya, yakni laut. Meskipun sangat rapuh dari sumber mata airnya, perlahan tapi pasti dia mengumpulkan kekuatan demi kekuatan dari sungai-sungai lain yang dijumpainya.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.