Flow requires committing to a task with unbendable intention, abandoning the comfort zone and plugging power drains.

Mindfulness and flow are different states of consciousness, but they both diminish the ego, decreasing craving and suffering.

The craving that causes suffering is not due to seeking pleasure, but by the demands of the ego.

Blaming, wishing and hoping take us out of flow by diverting our attention to what the external world can do for us

Personal power is to have the mental fortitude to live with meaning and happiness.

The idea that we deserve the best, as well as craving happiness and virtue, are traps of the ego.

A writer’s Way of the Warrior has intellectual honesty, self-reliance, humility, courage, restrain and personal power.

The Way of the Warrior is a philosophy of life consisting on acting with focused attention

The ego appears when shame and pride take over our consciousness and fill it with cravings.