Minutes of a Monday #15

Brain Food > Merging with the Flow

“The most promising faith for the future might be based on the realisation that the entire universe is a system related by common laws and that it makes no sense to impose our dreams and desires on nature without taking them into account.

Recognising the limitations of human will, accepting a cooperative rather than a ruling role in the universe, we should feel the relief of the exile who is finally returning home. The problem of meaning will then be resolved as the individual’s purpose merges with the universal flow.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the father of flow, on the making of meaning (from his book “Flow”).

Soul Food

"In such a massive place as the cosmos, we only have to look at ourselves to prove that extremely unlikely things can and do happen all the time." Stephen Hawking

Rare Air

“You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.” Jean Cocteau

LOL

Russel Howard on the World cup in the desert.

AOB

Have a great week – Niall