Sports is an interesting metaphor. I read a beautiful book called All Things Shining where they really use sports as a metaphor for this because one of the few things our culture really acknowledges is excellence in sports. But one of things about a great moment in sports - when a pitcher is having a perfect game in baseball, you know what happens to the team? Nobody talks to him. They completely, everybody just stays away. Because hes entered into a completely different zone. They call it the flow in sports psychology. Theyre in the flow. And great athletes know this. And its when everything becomes unified. Theyre not experiencing separateness. Everything is perfect. And thats when he pitches a perfect game. Shut-out, no-hitter. Just strike-out after strike-out. And nothing goes wrong. Its a perfect flow. This is the state of the saints, all the time. This is where theyre at. This is where the awliya are at.. Its perfect flow. And thats why they dont get disruptive, they dont get disturbed, because theyre aware. Now reading at the highest level is that. Youre in a state of flow. Thats why hes [Mortimer Adler] saying if you learn these rules, the more you work at them, you will begin to read in a state of flow where all of these things are making sense, theyve coalesced and telescoped for you, but its hard work. - Hamza Yusuf, How to Read a Book, Part II (from about 1 hr, 5 mins in).
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:38:12 +0000
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