When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.