Flow

In the mailbox this Monday morning…

From a physiological perspective, we know there is nothing remotely stable or permanent to our being. You have experienced billions of cellular deaths and rebirths since you began reading this essay. Like a flame or waterfall or a whirlpool, there is a physical continuity to our form, but everything that makes it up has moved on....our personal folklore is as transient as our gut bacteria. Our opinions, priorities and affiliations are fickle over time. Even our most personal stories bend to comport to the human we want to be on a particular day....

True authenticity is letting go of the stories you tell yourself about yourself and simply being here and now in the river’s current.
Surely you have tasted the nectar of flow state, in which discursive thought dissipates and action yokes with intention? In this space that has no place, we sever the Cartesian conflation of thinking and being. Unshackled by the ego, the symbol we give ourselves, we inhabit of a lightness of being, a merger of self and the world. The true authentic self recognizes its oneness with the universe, its character as the delegated adaptability of foundational cosmic intelligence. – Jeff Krasno, Commusings, 10.2.2022

That feeling of freshness and deep joy that you experience from time to time

arising from what seems a mysterious source

are sure signs that you have aligned yourself with The Way. – Rumi