Quotes About Flow

I remember thinking you live from moment to moment and the moments all flow into one another forwards and backwards and you almost never catch one like this that's separate from the rest.

I remember thinking you live from moment to moment and the moments all flow into one another forwards and backwards and you almost never catch one like this that's separate from the rest. It felt like a precious diamond and I was holding it up to the sunlight between my thumb and forefinger and all these cold blue and white and gold colored sparks of light were jumping off of it.

Time's arrow points one way only. Even the moment just past cannot be returned to.

The dance had begun.

A wave is born from deep conditions of the ocean...A person is born from deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and rolls along like a wave, until it is time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived.

nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the time being.

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.

Of course there are individual books—you may even be holding one in your hand right now—but that's not all we are. At the risk of sounding full of ourselves, we are both the One and the Many, an ever-changing plurality, a bodiless flow. Shifting and changing shape, we encounter your human eye as black marks on a page, or your ear as bursts of sound. From there, we travel through your minds, and thus we merge and multiply.

I don't really know how to say it, but if you're really honestly having fun, you're not supposed to think and look for things right in the middle of it, am I right?

Find something that, when you're doing it, makes you feel like you don't have anywhere to go. If you don't find it, you'll end up having to go somewhere you don't want to.

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.

Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

Float through life, just take it easy, not too much stress, just, float.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

Live events are notorious for being pressure free. Stress free. It's all about just doing the match. Doing what you feel.

Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!