A piece of wisdom from
December 22, 2023 · Friday
The quote
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
— Swami Vivekananda · Dharma
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 2.22
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही॥
“As a person sheds worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so does the embodied self shed worn-out bodies and take on new ones.”
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