Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose.

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.