Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow Quotations

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

When someday I die, Please tell those whom I know That I ebbed with the Flow

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

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.

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

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