If You Do Anything Well, It Becomes

Whether We Like It Or Not, Each Of Us Is Constrained By Limits On What We Can Do And Feel. To Ignore These Limits Leads To Denial And Eventually To Failure. To Achieve Excellence, We Must First Understand The Reality Of The Everyday, With All Its Demands

The Germ Of An Idea Doesn't Make The Sculpture That Stands Up... So The Next Stage Is Hard Work

But To Change All Existence Into A Flow Experience, It Is Not Sufficient To Learn Merely How To Control Moment-by-moment States Of Consciousness. It Is Also Necessary To Have An Overall Context Of Goals For The Events Of Everyday Life To Make Senseto Create Harmony In Whatever One Does Is The Last Task That The Flow Theory Presents To Whose Who Wish To Attain Optimal Experience; It Is A Task That Involves Transforming The Entirety Of Life Into A Single Flow Activity, With Unified Goals That Provide Constant Purpose.

The Downside, Of Course, Is That Over Time Religions Become Encrusted With Precepts And Ideas That Are The Antithesis Of Soul, As Each Faith Tries To Protect Its Doctrines And Institution Instead Of Nurturing The Evolution Of Consciousness. If One Is Not Careful To Distinguish The Genuine Insights Of A Religion From Its Irrelevant Accretions, One Can Go Through Life Following An Inappropriate Moral Compass.

Control Over Consciousness Cannot Be Institutionaliz Ed. As Soon As It Becomes Part Of A Set Of Social Rules And Norms, It Ceases To Be Effective In The Way It Was Originally Intended To Be.