Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Business, Believe

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.34, Penguin

• It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Business, Safety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.24, Penguin

• ...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Change, Business, Cutting

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.113, Penguin

• 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.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Faith, Business, Ideas

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.118, Penguin

• I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Thinking, Hands, People

  "Creating Purpose" by Jen Grisanti, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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