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\nEnjoy this collection of quotes on the state of flow.
\n\u201cLet\u2019s make things exist and then judge later. Don\u2019t cancel the process of creativity too early: Let it flow.\u201d \u2013 Ross Lovegrove
\n\u201cOne of my teachers once said that the way you know you\u2019re on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.\u201d \u2013 James Redfield
\n\u201cI live my life on self-believe and I live it partly on going with the flow.\u201d \u2013 Melanie Brown
\n\u201cLife is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check in with myself, I usually end up on the right track.\u201d \u2013 Taylor Schilling
\n\u201cThe most important part of life is work, it\u2019s the flow, it\u2019s getting stuff done, feeling like you\u2019re doing something.\u201d \u2013 Penn Jillette
\n\u201cMy hand does the work and I don\u2019t have to think. In fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It\u2019s like a dam in the brain that bursts.\u201d \u2013 Edna O\u2019Brien
\n\u201cThoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.\u201d \u2013 Paracelsus
\n\u201cThe idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well.\u201d \u2013 Jack Welch
\n\u201cThe self expands through acts of self-forgetfulness.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
\n\u201cI\u2019ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it\u2019s almost like a high. You don\u2019t want it to stop. You don\u2019t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Dre
\n\u201cYou are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don\u2019t exist. I have experienced this time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching it in a state of awe and wonderment. And [the music] just flows out of itself.\u201d – Anonymous Composer
\n\u201cMost of musicians know about the unique state that is reached in the music sessions: you are not focused on yourself, you are focused on the collective action, on the others, on the music. Your self-consciousness is reduced and the perception of the synergy generated as a group is enhanced. There\u2019s a pleasurable rewarding feeling about the idea of creating something together\u2026\u201d – Francisco Zamorano
\n\u201cI\u2019ve kind of entered a flow state. I\u2019ve been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.\u201d \u2013 Aron Ralston
\n\u201cThe mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it\u2019s over but really wish it would go on forever. The justification of climbing is climbing, like the justification of poetry is writing; you don\u2019t conquer anything except things in yourself\u2026. The act of writing justifies poetry. Climbing is the same: recognizing that you are a flow. The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow. It is not a moving up but a continuous flowing; you move up to keep the flow going. There is no possible reason for climbing except the climbing itself; it is a self-communication.\u201d
\n\u2015 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
\n\u201cIt is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
\n\u201cEnjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person\u2019s capacity to act.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
\n\u201cOf all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
\n\u201cIt is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
\n\u201cIf you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
\n\u201cIf you feel bored or uncomfortable as you\u2019re writing, ask yourself what\u2019s bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.\u201d \u2013 Natalie Goldberg
\n\u201cFew things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
\n\u201cControl of consciousness determines the quality of life.\u201d \u2013 Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi
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