A piece of wisdom from
July 19, 2021 · Monday
The quote
“No one can remain even for a moment without performing action. Everyone is helplessly driven to act by the qualities born of nature.”
— Krishna · The Bhagavad Gita
The concept
Flow State
The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
Flow is not productivity. It is not focus. It is the optimal state of human experience, total absorption in an activity that matches your skill to a challenge worth caring about. Csikszentmihalyi spent thirty years documenting it across sur…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Flow State. The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 3.21
यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः। स यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते॥
“Whatever a great person does, others follow. Whatever standard they set, the world pursues.”
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