The deepest focus is a 'vacation from yourself.' Total absorption temporarily releases you from self-consciousness — from being 'a man' who monitors and narrates himself. 'When man hunts he succeeds in di-verting himself and in distracting himself from being a man. And this is the superlative diversion.' Presence is the state where you stop being the self-aware observer of your own action and simply are the action. Flow is an exit from self, not an achievement of self.

— In our words · Source: Meditations on Hunting (José Ortega y Gasset)