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Notice the feeling, recognize it for what it is, take a deep breath, and shift your energies to that which needs doing.
Gregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology
When people ask me: Who are you? What do you do? And I tell them — I walk, I write, I photograph, I make books, I run a membership program. Their suspicion is plainly visible: No, but what do you do to survive ? As if the soul itself wasn’t a thing to be nourished. This is survival, I want to say. But instead I say: And from those activities I make... See more
Craig Mod • Running a Membership Program: Four Years In
in all Asian languages, the word that is translated into English as “mind” could also be translated as “heart.”
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
mono no aware. This Japanese term, which literally means ‘pathos of things’, describes the deep emotion that is evoked when we are touched by nature, art or the lives of others with an awareness of their transience. It also refers to the essence of things and our ability to feel that essence.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
The point in deciding specific places to keep things is to designate a spot for every thing.
Marie Kondo • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
