There’s a phrase in Chinese, “wu wei,” that describes how I felt. In English, its translation is “non-doing,” but not in the sense of doing nothing. Non-doing is not about escaping anything or being lazy but instead refers to a deep level of connectedness with the world. The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote about this more than 2,500 years ago in

Existe una alternativa: la idea, poderosa por más que esté en desuso, de dejar que el tiempo te use a ti, y de vivir la vida no como una oportunidad de poner en práctica tus planes predefinidos para lograr el éxito, sino como una situación desde la que responder a las necesidades de tu lugar y tu momento de la historia.

“The ideal of ‘effortless action’, or wu-wei, refers to the dynamic, unselfconscious state of mind of a person who is optimally active and effective. People in wu-wei feel as if they are doing nothing, while at the same time they might be creating a brilliant work of art, smoothly negotiating a complex social situation, or even bringing the entire