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people who think of others as enemies have not attained self-acceptance and do not have enough confidence in others.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
After Life film, ワンダフルライフ, 1998, Japan.
After souls leave their bodies on Earth, they go through a process before entering their personal heaven, a single special memory they want to live for eternity.
Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Issue #15: Why Japan's Vintage Shopping Is So Good
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The reason every item must have a designated place is because the existence of an item without a home multiplies the chances that your space will become cluttered again.
Marie Kondo • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
more likely to diminish the experience than to enrich it. In a letter to his brothers Keats speaks of 'Negative Capability' as the capacity for ‘being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason'. This seems exactly the response demanded by many of these gardens.
Ian Littlewood • KYOTO WITHOUT CROWDS: A Guide to the City's Most Peaceful Temples and Gardens
Home - Koto Studio
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With Ikigai (“your true calling”), we discussed how the citizens of Okinawa, Japan find their “reason to get out of bed in the morning” by discovering a personal passion project.