A piece of wisdom from
December 17, 2022 · Saturday
The quote
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
— Joseph Campbell · Fear
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
Before bed tonight, name one thing where 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 2.48
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय। सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते॥
“Established in yoga, perform action, having abandoned attachment, and remaining even-minded in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called yoga.”
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