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The desire for recognition is probably a natural desire. So are you going to keep rolling downhill in order to receive recognition from others? Are you going to wear yourself down like a rolling stone, until everything is smoothed away? When all that is left is a little round ball, would that be “the real I”? It cannot be.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Yohji-san has developed a definition of what’s beautiful that’s his and his alone — that your clothes protect you, sure, but in doing so, they hint at the soul within and insist on your humanness.
Yohji Yamamoto is living on his own terms
In the tearoom there is a sober veneration for unadorned rusticity, for the greatness to be found in the most restrained expression of the humble and simple.
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
make a habit of looking at things and events in more detail. Observe what is going on around you and the people you encounter as closely and as deeply as you can. Reflect on what you see.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
Iki is a term born during the Edo Period. It was used first in samurai circles to designate men of worth and elegance who followed the code of honor.
Hector Garcia • Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
refined action comes neither from your effort nor from someone else’s. If your effort were not supported by the universe as a whole, you could not make any real effort at all. Pure, refined action makes no distinction between self and others.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
HOW MUCH LONELINESS THE TRUTH CAN CAUSE
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
The tree does its best with what it gets.