Quotes About Flow

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.

A creek is more powerful than despair.

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean. It evaporates, like a soul, into the clouds. And then, like everything else, it starts all over again.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time the distinction between work and play dissolves.

Once they move, they're gone. Once you move, life starts over again.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

Keep the pace with whatever is happening and keep your mind free. This is the best thing to do in order to be happy.

Don't over-think things. Go with the flow. See where it takes you. Love is unpredictable, you know.

Don't push the river, it will flow. Don't push the love, it will grow.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin. Trying to grasp, we lose. Allow your life to unfold naturally. Know that it too is a vessel of perfection. Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

The water from the river becomes salty when it gets into the ocean.

Time is a river of passing events and we are the fish searching for an ocean.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Whoever accelerates the media of earth, water and air centrifugally perishes unconditionally, for in so doing they reduce the Blood of the Earth (water) to a pathogenic state and make it the most dangerous enemy of all living and growing things.

Life will always flow on, it had whispered gently. You might try to stop it, but no one can alter the flow of life. You can only learn how to move with it gracefully, tumbling through the rough times, restoring yourself during the smooth times, and knowing that wherever it takes you, a mightier hand than yours is guiding you, always directing your path. Moses

We stayed here for only a few hours. We rested and went on. But the camera snatched this fraction of a second from the eternal flow of time and froze it forever. At this moment we didn't know that in a few hours we would fall into an ambush. At this moment, while we were filling our canteens from the stream, we didn't yet know that we would stay in the mountains for three days without a drop of water. We didn't yet know anything …

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Focus is not achieved by staring hard at something. It is not trying to force focus, nor does it mean thinking hard about something. Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested. When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.