Easy like a Sunday Morning

"Seems to me girl you know I have done all I can,
You see, I begged, stole and borrowed.
Oh, that's why I am easy, easy like a Sunday morning."
Lionel Richie, Easy

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi writes in 'Flow' that someone who knows his desires and works with purpose to achieve them, is someone whose feelings, thoughts and actions are in unity and thus someone who achieves harmony. While this is true, this description doesn't really have any normative implications. After all, as Lionel Richie reminds us, someone who begs, steals and borrows can feel easy as well. This flow insight is all about the use of psychic energy, if you are 100 % sure about your life's mission then there are no conflict of interest. All your energy flows in the activity that is meaningful to you.

A spiritual path traveler has normative values. Yes, we believe that deep down inside we are all loving and beautiful. Thus, someone who is on a mission to conquer the world may follow his destiny, but at the end of the day something inside himself will rebel and scream, "No, this isn't me". As the bible reminds us, "What use is it to gain the world if you lose your soul". So from our perspective, the Tao traveler happens to be the only one who devotes 100 % of her psychic energy towards her mission in life, to follow the clues of the Tao, while being quite flexible about the actual journey. Like Lionel we perhaps transition from beg, borrow and steal to

"I wanna be high, so high,
I wanna be free to know 
the things I do are right
I wanna be free, just me!"