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Although there are some small inconveniences and limitations, you probably think that the lifestyle you have now is the most practical one, and that it’s easier to leave things as they are. If you stay just like this, experience enables you to respond properly to events as they occur, while guessing the results of one’s actions. You could say it’s
... 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
I mean, you’re (Offscreen) probably not making a ton of money publishing an indie magazine, right? So why do you do it? Because you feel it in your bones. This must exist.
Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview
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
Finding your Ikigai often entails simultaneously discovering the domicile of your muse as well as the arena in which your toughest battles will be waged.
Anthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)
Albert Einstein was asked one day by a friend “Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?” “Yes, it would be possible,” he replied, “but it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation in wave pressure.” —RONALD W. CLARK, Einstein: The Life and
... See moreDavid Suzuki • The Sacred Balance, 25th anniversary edition: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
I just stumbled across this and I needed to share it with you. It’s called ‘Ikigai’, and it’s the Japanese concept for “a reason for being”.
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When we’re unwell, we lose ourselves. We forget who we are, so of course a big part of recovery is getting back in touch with ourselves and finding our values. If we’ve lived... See more
instagram.comAs I mentioned, most of the oldest companies in the world are in Japan. In a survey of 5,500 companies over 200 years old, 3,100 are based in Japan. The rest are in some of the older countries in Europe.
But — and this was a fact I found curious, and one that speaks to the cyclical nature of things — 90% of the companies that are over 200 years old
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