Quotes About Flow

It is unintelligent to try to hold on to things, to freeze them, when we can't.

It seemed as natural as two blades of grass brushing each other in the wind.

Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away

Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.

Tai Chi experts, like figures on a marvelous clock, who seem in their slow-motion way to be untelling time.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

When a step is aligned with your well-being and that of everyone involved, universal intelligence will make it happen. The Tao has your back.

The Tao does not separate, but enfolds.

What comes of itself, let it come. What goes of itself, let it go.

In a world where time cannot be measured, there are no clocks, no calendars, no definite appointments. Events are triggered by other events, not by time.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

The wise want nothing but accept whatever comes their way, letting it pass when it is time to part ways. Ram is

Life is like a river. You can struggle to change its course but ultimately it will go its own way. Bathe

Life is like a river. You can struggle to change its course but ultimately it will go its own way. Bathe in it, drink it, be refreshed by it, share it with everyone, but never fight it, never be swept away by its flow, and never get attached to it. Observe it. Learn from it.