Frederick Carl Frieseke Quotes

Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.”

Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

When I try to go with what's happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me.

Life is all about balance and following what the universe provides for you.

I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Don't push the river. Just go with it.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

Follow your compass, not your clock.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.