Quotes About Flow

To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

Our life is woven wind.

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

Life is like dancing...changing all the time.

I don't make plans. I live my life on a daily basis.

That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

Motion is the sign of life.

Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.

If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Life is a dance... Enjoy every step.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen." His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named "flow." In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.

Ideas coming in spontaneous, erratic bursts.

If we have to translate it, wu-wei is probably best rendered as something like "effortless action" or spontaneous action.

This is not to say that history repeats itself. Time is not a carousel on which we might, next time around, snatch the brass ring by being better prepared. Rather we see the past as flowing powerfully through the present and think that charting historical currents can enhance our ability to navigate them.

Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks….But where, who can say, down the long stream of time, are our eroded days deposited?

Follow the time since time follows no one.

Let slip off love like the water; it will make the way itself to reach its circle.