Odin's Ravens

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things f...

The Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book,  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience , is always on my coffee table. I...

“The consequence of forging life by purpose and resolution is a sense of inner harmony, a dynamic order in the contents of consciousness,” w...

“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree...

“Despite its great powers, attention cannot step beyond (its) limits,” observed Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book F...

"There is no occupation in the world so absorbing as trying to paint. Everything, every worry, is for the moment forgotten in the effor...

“It is important to do as much as we can to prevent nuclear war, to abolish social injustice, to eradicate hunger and disease,” wrote psycho...

“The term autotelic derives from two Greek words, auto meaning self and telos meaning goal. It refers to a self-contained activity, one that...

  “In today’s world we come to neglect the habit of writing because so many other media of communication have taken its place,” wrote Mihaly...

Art by Wade Koniakowsky Jiro Taylor: “The Alpha-Theta border area of around 8 Hz is recognized as being the signature wave state for flow st...

Consider the similarities between Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s notion of flow and the ancient yogic concept of Dharana, ...

The Hungarian-born psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Me-high Cheek-sent-me-high) regards this trait as a key element of the a...

“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment,” wro...

Flow: “The state of concentration and engagement that can be achieved when completing a task that challenges one's skills. The theory wa...