Quotes about Flow

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.

So I'd start writing without reining myself in. It was almost just typing, just making my fingers move. And the writing would be terrible.

We worry that we're not in the right emotional moment to do our work. And mostly, we give away our agency, begging someone, anyone, to do the hard part of summoning the muse or getting us approval or a gig or support so that we can maybe, just maybe, feel the light again. It's a trap. Flow is the result of effort. The muse shows up when we do the work. Not the other way around. Set up your tools, turn off the internet, and go back to work.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

spiritual marriage is like rain falling from heaven into a river

It's like the dirty water that spurts out of a bathtub that hasn't been used for a while; you just have to let it do its thing for a bit, and then clear water will begin to flow.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).

Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Love is the river of life in this world.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.