A piece of wisdom from
November 5, 2026 · Thursday
The quote
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of reacting to the urgent, it means pausing to ask: is this the most important thing I could be doing?”
— Greg McKeown · The Power of No
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
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: 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 9.22
अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते। तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्॥
“To those who worship me, thinking of no other, ever steadfast, I bring what they lack and preserve what they have.”
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