Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyiby Parker on Twos“It gives me a great satisfaction. To be outdoors, to talk with people, to be with my animals...I talk to everybody—plants, birds, flowers, and animals. Everything in nature keeps you company; you see nature progress every day. You feel clean and happy: too bad that you get tired and have to go home.... even when you have to work a lot it is very beautiful.”She is perfectly content and serene with the role she plays in the universe“I am free, free in my work, because I do whatever I want. If I don’t do something today I will do it tomorrow. I don’t have a boss, I am the boss of my own life. I have kept my freedom and I have fought for my freedom.”To perfect a life-style capable of balancing harmoniously human goals with the resources of the environment is as rare a feat as building one of the great cathedrals that fill visitors with aweYu is a synonym for the right way of following the path, or Tao: it has been translated into English as “wandering”; as “walking without touching the ground”; or as “swimming,” “flying,” and “flowing.” Chuang Tzu believed that to Yu was the proper way to live—without concern for external rewards, spontaneously, with total commitment—in short, as a total autotelic experienceConflict at work is often due to a person’s feeling defensive out of a fear of losing face“It is in the improvident use of our leisure, I suspect, that the greatest wastes of American life occur.”“The future,” wrote C. K. Brightbill, “will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.”Reform yourself. That way there will be one less rascal in the world.”“The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.”