Here you will find some of the greatest quotes about Flows.
Change the environment to change yourself. It’s the most strategic path to Progress.
The environment of today will shape our stories and identity of tomorrow.
Everything we can do to change our future is all about what we surround ourselves with and how we react to it.
You cannot improve your Game of Self by force, and trying to do that can be counterproductive.
You can change your environment and it will do the magic.
Don’t aim for full control – it’s impossible.
Self-knowledge is never complete.
There is only one universally good direction in mental health – outwards.
The good things in life: Love, Freedom, Empathy, Meaning, Hunter mode are all about opening up to the world and its people.
Open up and you invite the good, close up and you’re stuck with your worst.
We need one thing from our environment – Structures that help us open up.
There is no way to compare your Flows with someone else’s. This is why comparing yourself to others is useless and counterproductive.
The flows we care about are not in the real world. They are your states of being.
The real world has one true Flow – nature.
The Boxes are in you. The Flows are you.
If you feel motivated for something, you feel motivated for everything.
If you feel creative in something, you feel creative in everything.
Boxes cannot bring true long-term happiness.
Love is transcendental and knows no Barriers.
Fears need at least one big barrier – the one between yourself and the world, the “Wall of Mirrors” or simply the Wall.
Focus and general intuitive awareness have to coexist.
We need to gather all our Self-love and desire for Freedom and start with a leap of Faith. Baby steps won’t do.
The real problem is not the lousy boss. The real problem is the Boxes that represent him within you.
Embracing Flows and ditch all possible Boxes.
The relatively safe and comfortable life of the modern human needs Flows and Meaning, not Boxes and thinking.
Resist. Every time you feel the urge to put something in a Box, Resist. Every time other people and the world impose their Box-based thinking upon you, Resist.
Every wise advice you have ever heard is just an extension of living without Boxes.
And you have to do just one thing, although very scary…
The Boxes make you weak and unhappy. You need Flows, even if they bring Chaos to your life.
Live outside the Box!
Flows like Love do not come with rules, and you cannot win; you just have to keep playing (loving). So Love is an infinite game.
All the true value in life is carried by the Flows.
Intuition is a Flow process. This is why it’s powerful, yet harmless.
Logical thinking is a Box process. This is why it’s exhausting, prone to errors, and potentially harmful.
Entrepreneurship is a Flow structure – good for your mental health.
Most day jobs are Box structures – bad for your mental health.
Any speech that changed history is full of Flow language. This is how you inspire people and bring change!
Identity politics is based on Boxes and this can screw up even the best intentions.
Us vs. Them is always based on a Box.
It’s so much easier to just respect everyone for being human, no matter how different.
I don’t have a single label I identify with.
The fewer Boxes, the better.
Stories are so powerful because they connect Box structures into a Flow.
Unconditional love is so powerful and magical because it turns a Box (another person) into a Flow (the feeling of the other person being a part of you).
The concept of Money is a Flow structure improving a box-dominated ecosystem.
Constructing the best environment is much easier than you think. You just need to be able to tell a Box from a Flow.
Your Love, Meaning, friends, fun, and work can all be one beautiful intertwined mess. Trust me, the small inconveniences will be far outmatched by the huge energy and Motivation resulting from not mentally dividing yourself into pieces.
If you don’t care if you’re right or wrong, you have successfully embraced Flows.
People are wrong so much of the time that obsessing over being right separates them from reality.
If everything you care about is being right, more than being free or happy, your life is crushed by the Boxes.
If your heart doesn’t care if you’re right, you’re in Hunter mode.
Humans are easily influenced by their peers, so surround yourself with the best people you can find.
No human relation should be taken for granted.
If you can be yourself around someone and are happy in silence with them, it’s a worthy friendship.
The quality of your closest human relationships is the most important indicator of health and happiness.
Unconditional love will improve every single aspect of your life. It rewires your brain and changes you, and you participate in your life all the time.
Love is not enough. For most of the time, you need people who haven’t lost their touch with reality.
No one has a duty to listen to Bullshit.
Value your energy and time.
Only you know you.
If all of your days are the same, you will not really develop broad self-knowledge.
You need to see your reactions in different situations, and some of them need to be out of your comfort zone.
The Forest model is the only magical one that can strategically create a Flow out of a Box.
You’ll find the Flows. As you have no choice.
Today, the Boxes have already played their important role to make life safe and comfortable, but they have overkilled it and usurped most of our entire lives.
Most modern people have a phone addiction.
Getting lost nearly guarantees the feeling of success.
Success (Game of Life) and the feeling of success (Game of Self) are very different things.
If you constantly feel cold, you don’t change your thermostat by 2 degrees; you do cold plunges. Extremes can help as a tool, even if not desirable themselves.
Feel time as a Flow and stop feeling anxiety about deadlines and potential small losses!
If you genuinely feel your coworkers are decent people, show it to them. Be just as warm as you would be to lifelong friends. Too much distance is of no use between well-meaning people.
If people in arranged marriages can manage to build a relationship from scratch with a random person, you can manage some shared files and tasks!
Every relationship with every person, random or not, will be one of a kind in your life. Make it count!
This is the greatest thing about Flows – you cannot overdo them! You cannot be too loving, too compassionate, too respectful, too motivated, too creative, or too responsible. The more the better! And mixing them only makes it better.
Never let people down for no good reason! But don’t be afraid of letting down systems and expectations!
Every significant delay in important communication is letting the other side down – this is the worst kind of Procrastination, don’t do that.
Procrastination is just a signal that there is no Meaning for you here, and you want to search for it elsewhere.
Do not cave to external Pressure and never let others induce Guilt and Shame in you. You’re morally allowed to aggressively repel such attempts.
Our excuses are usually a major obstacle to any progress. We don’t do what is good for us and always, always find an excuse why.
Procrastination is the danger alert, and excuses become new paths in life, better ones.
Procrastination is part of you. Have Faith in it. It’s just telling you that you either need a more fun way of achieving your goal… or that your goal is not worth it in the first place. Most likely because it’s a Box while you need Flows.
You just have to believe and act as if the success of tomorrow happens today. Because it does happen today! It’s today’s actions that form it. And part of it is to act like you’re already there.
Give yourself the signal that failure is not an option!
The people who burnt the bridges gave their faith and conviction a boost. The people who left the bridges there just in case gave their doubts a boost.
Never ever, never, never, never allow yourself to be afraid of success.
Wisely invest today the money you’ll make tomorrow – exchange them for time and energy, for removing distractions and educating yourself.
The success of tomorrow is born today by creating the identity that supports this success.
Spending the money you are earning in real time is a Flow way of living.
Savings are only a good idea if you cannot invest the money into yourself productively.
Value your time highly before its value is actually high.
The time you invest productively today will bring the growth of tomorrow.
Always trade your time for good money, good education, good impact, or good fun. Do not compromise with the quality of any of these!
Tough times are when you rip apart your Game of Self Barriers and truly grow.
Never let a crisis go to waste!
You have to believe you deserve more and constantly fight for it.
Changing value over time is a Flow.
Price your products and services high even before the quality reflects the price.
I’ve seen countless cases of businesses which fail because the prices are too low. On the other hand, I’ve never seen a business fail because the prices are too high.
What should go into Pricing a product or service? Only the market! Your costs don’t matter. Your experience and knowledge don’t matter. Nothing matters except how many people would pay the price. Detach pricing from your Self-worth and emotions.
If you sell something expensive, buyers will assume it’s good. Step two – actually make it good!
Pricing only according to the market is a Flow process as the market evolves constantly, making Intuition the decision maker.
It’s impossible to find a mentor. The mentor finds you. You just need to be there and show potential, intellectual interest, commitment, and gratitude.
True mentoring is about Love, trust, and giving up control.
Mentoring is an unpopular forest – you start and then anything can happen.
A gift is meant to be from the heart, so mandatory birthday and Christmas gifts ruin a lot of their value – you should give one only if you feel like it and are happy with your choice.
Experiences are usually better than objects.
A targeted gift is a wonderful opportunity to send a strong message.
Gifts that help your loved ones overcome barriers and live out of the Box are the very best!
Just like the letters from before digital times, emails are more of a Flow than a Box. They can be short or long, read now or later, and answered now or later, or even never.
There is true joy in slow, asynchronous communication. There is true Freedom to write when you feel like it.
Open letters are powerful. If the facts tell that you’re a victim, be the victim at the start. But then make a glorious comeback. Commit to fighting injustice. Be emotional. Speak for the whole world against the perpetrators. And most important of all, end by offering a concrete solution.
You can use creative language like “a shark is just a big fish, but unlike other fish, it would happily eat you – and this is why big corporations and institutions are aggressive and mean, it’s just evolution”. Who are they gonna sue, Charles Darwin?
Politics is an ugly fight in the mud where no one wins.
In the David vs Goliath battles, everyone roots for David. Whenever a Goliath system really messes up your life, use this advantage to hit back.
You are powerful when you feel and wield Flows in life.
best and choose the people around you for the beauty of their hearts, but even the best ones will fail you from time to time. No one is perfect. Don’t expect it from anyone.
Systems are inherently indifferent. Evolutionary forces make them fight for its own preservation at all costs.
The moment you try to change a system, all its ugly self-preservation mechanisms will try to crush you in response. This makes actually changing the world for the better a highly creative endeavor, while grinding along old paths will just trigger stronger opposing forces from the powers that be.
Don’t consciously think about the future, let alone plan. Your Intuition and mind are already there, thanks to the power of prediction. Your heart’s place is in the current moment. The future will come to it with zero effort. In a Flow, if you allow it.
Say goodbye to the center of your comfort zone for good. Its edge is where the magic happens.
Logical thinking is just a justification while you have already chosen emotionally, even if the process was not conscious.
The world has way too many Boxes. Destroy their projections in you, and embrace the Flows instead. Don’t think, just be. All the time, on every level, everywhere.
