A piece of wisdom from
February 16, 2025 · Sunday
The quote
“When doubt haunts me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to the Bhagavad Gita and find a verse to comfort me.”
— Mahatma Gandhi · 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
Notice one moment today when 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 2.14
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः। आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत॥
“Contacts of the senses with their objects — bringing cold and heat, pleasure and pain — come and go. They are impermanent. Endure them, O Bharata.”
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