Quotes About Flow

Every situation is a passing memory.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

You just can't fly when you're wearing socks, and shoes, and coats, and pants, and underwear. Everything has to go.

We are never encouraged to experience the ebb and flow of our moods, of our health, of the weather, of outer events—pleasant and unpleasant—in their fullness. Instead we stay caught in a fearful, narrow holding pattern of avoiding any pain and continually seeking comfort. This is the universal dilemma.

push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

Anger is how you feel. Hate is not letting your anger flow

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

When one is painting one does not think.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.