“In any smoother flow, the relationship between what a person had to do and what he could do was harmoniously balanced. The challenge at hand wasn’t too easy to effectuate, nor was it too difficult to complete. The trial at hand was indeed a notch or two beyond his current abilities or energies, no doubt. And yet this difficulty is what stretched his body and mind in a way that made the effort itself the most delicious reward – that made his every smile-at stranger take notice; that made even his smallest act of graciousness seem magnificent. In this type of flow, the flow where the deed itself was known as innately worthy and more than worth any struggle or tribulation that was arising, people are forced to live far more fully in the moment. Their sense of time, place, and even the self melts into the task at hand, and any sense of suffering they might have been feeling melts into it as well. They remain autonomous, of course. But more than that, they become fully engaged and fully alive.” ~ via Daniel H. Pink

Filed under: Peace Pilgrimage #02: Walking HOME (2019) by Scaughdt