Quotes About Flow

We're always in an intermediate state between the past and the future, between the memory of what happened before and the approaching experience that will soon become memory as well.

Thoughts, emotions, moods, and memories come and they go, and basic nowness is always here.

Being fully present isn't something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it's being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

Los pensamientos, emociones, estados de ánimo y recuerdos vienen y van, y el ahora básico está siempre

The basic creative energy of life - life force - bubbles up and courses through all of existence

If today the instruction is to put everything on the right, one does that as impeccably as one can. When tomorrow the instruction is to put everything on the left, one does that with one's whole heart. The idea of one right way sort of dissolves into the mist.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything—every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate—is always changing, moment to moment.

Traditionally it's said that the cause of suffering is clinging to our narrow view. Another way to say the same thing is that resisting our complete unity with all of life, resisting the fact that we change and flow like the weather, that we have the same energy as all living things, resisting that is what's called ego.

relax gradually and wholeheartedly into the ordinary and obvious truth of change.

The presence of water invites song and music; there is something about its flow, and the sound of its flow, that elicits other melodies.

Texts are musical in that they take time, and the time texts take is musical time. The time of music and the time of texts always involve reaching for the next moment. Music is always moving toward the next note, and we are always reading beyond the individual word. Each sentence compels us to move forward; each paragraph carries us along to the denouement.

The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and from which all subsequent history flows. By it we know all reality is cruciform—the love of God, the shape of creation, the labyrinth of human history.

Like water, it slowed my descent. Like water, it gave me a feeling of buoyancy.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. RUMI

Cuando haces cosas desde el alma, sientes un río, un gozo que fluye en tu interior. RUMI

I've discovered that you can solve many difficulties with what Lao-tzu called non-action

Time, however, was creeping or sliding or flowing or proceeding in whatever unknown manner Time used to make Then into Now.

I am like a gray thing, he thought. Bustling along with the currents of air that tumble me, that roll me, like a gray puffball, on and on.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.

Play the moment, play whatever plays for you in that moment, and then go to the next moment. It doesn't matter where you're going. Don't worry about that. Just take it moment, moment, moment, moment.

I can type very fast, sometimes even faster than I can think of what to type.

lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.

An interesting side effect of pull systems is that they limit work-in-progress (WIP) to some agreed-upon quantity