Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Time Quotations

You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced this time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching in a state of awe and wonderment. And it just flows out by itself.

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.