Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.
Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.
On the other side of resistance is the flow.
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.
People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.
You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
The burning bushes, the smoking mountains,. . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.
For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.
It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be.
I'm worried about people who say George W. Bush is lying. It's much more frightening that he's not lying, that he believes what he believes: that it's his mission to change the Middle East into a democracy. That's more unnerving. We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of oil to America and keep it at a reasonable price and try to get some more control. If it was about oil, going into Iraq, I guess, could have made sense.
Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.