Sublime

We yearn for that flow state where we effortlessly move with fluidity, creativity, and freedom, playing as if nobody’s watching. Once we taste this, once we tap into this amazing bodily feeling of being fully present, entirely connected to who we are and completely dropped into what we are doing, we long to experience it again and again and again.

Isolated in the freezing night, they used to chant their poems huddled around fires in precarious huts, while outside the winds of the interminable arctic winters howled. If the Icelanders had spent all those nights in silence listening to the mocking wind, their minds would have soon filled with dread and despair.

When I was talking to Hanne Mällinen-Scott, I noticed that she returned again and again to the sauna; it helped her to cope with the cold.

supports quiet warmth and relaxation that extends to suffuse the entire body and beyond. It beautifies what is experienced, and it influences how we relate to what happens next.

This synchronicity occurred because I felt such exquisite pleasure and experienced such divine comfort all day long that I was free to be a creative conduit.

Harshness and rigidity are expressions of the flow. When one experiences the One one naturally becomes soft and gentle, unassuming and quiet.