Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Every time we do this, we miss unknowable opportunities for connection, serendipity and everyday adventure in our own lives, for the mind has gone somewhere the body cannot follow.

All things, including life itself, are impermanent, incomplete and imperfect. Therefore, perfection is impossible, and imperfection is the natural state of everything, including ourselves.

One Japanese lifestyle brand I have admired for years is ‘fog linen work’,

Wabi can describe the feeling generated by recognising the beauty found in simplicity. It is a sense of quiet contentment found away from the trappings of a materialistic world.

Soulful simplicity makes for contented sufficiency. When you realise you are perfectly imperfect just as you are,

learned what it means to live in harmony with the Earth.

Japanese beauty is discovered in the experiencing, not just the seeing.

It allows us to realise that whatever our situation, there is beauty hiding somewhere.

sabi communicates a deep and tranquil beauty that emerges with the passage of time.