#Flow Quotes

“All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.”

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”

“As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.”

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”

“The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.”

“Keep doing what you love to the best of your ability. Stop judging and get out of your own way.”

“By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.”

“By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.”

“It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.”

“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”

“Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.”

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.”

“Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.”

“There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.”

“O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.”

“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way.”

“Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.”

“I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.”

“I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.”

“I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.”

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

“Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.”

“A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.”

“Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.”

“Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.”

“There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.”

“All things flourish, and each returns to its source.”

“Stay at the center and let all things take their course.”

“The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.”

“The master understands that the universe is forever out of control”

“Great, it passes on (in constant flow).”

“The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.”

“The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.”

“Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

“The way is light and fluid for the man withno preferences.”

“Everything will settle in its own place automatically.”

“How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.”

“He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.”

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

“The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.”

“One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.”

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

“A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.”

“The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.”

“Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.”

“Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.”

“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.”

“It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.”