Japan
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Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館) A prefectural art museum, largely built underground so as not to stand out too much in the green park.
Matthew Baxter • Super Cheap Japan: Budget Travel in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Hiroshima and Surrounding Areas (Super Cheap Guides Book 1)
Objects steeped in memories keep the past crystal clear within our minds.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
When one has adopted an energeial viewpoint, life is always complete. YOUTH: It’s complete? PHILOSOPHER: If your life, or mine, for that matter, were to come to an end here and now, it would not do to refer to either of them as unhappy. The life that ends at the age of twenty and the life that ends at ninety are both complete lives, and lives of
... See moreIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
benighted.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Give as much time as you can to those relationships in which you are able to experience the feeling of merging. Practise the profound art of haragei — the dialogue between friends that unfolds as much through silence as words.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
I felt so liberated and so pleased when I found out that what flowed inside me was connected to the broadleaf evergreen forest. My culture went far beyond the idiotic Japanese who started the war, beyond Hideyoshi Toyotomi who invaded Korea, and beyond The Tale of Genji that I detested. It was then that I realized how valuable plants are and how
... See moreHayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996
The Japanese resolve this tension using a concept called Ikigai. Roughly translated as a “reason for being,” discovering your Ikigai requires finding work that balances what the world needs with what you’re good at, what you love, and what you can do to earn a living.