Flow, I suspect, is a product of the unconscious mind. There’s no use trying to understand the processes of the unconscious for it is enormously complicated and many intelligent practitioners have tried and failed as documented in the history of philosophy and psychology. Flow is unstructured, pure...

The concrete things human beings need to survive can be listed out. The list, which may include water, food and shelter, does indeed terminate. One presumes that the needs of the soul are somewhat more elaborate so that it is never sufficient to provide a person with their mere existence; a purpose to their existence is required.

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