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Do people who have established their social status truly feel happy?
Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
Movement experience elicits genuine insights into our own behaviors and also into how groups shift from perpetuating stale relationship patterns toward becoming creative entities. It provokes reflection and learning. It makes visible the deeper patterns that support the cultivation of healthy social relations, sparking creative action in teams,
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What makes us enjoy doing something so much that we forget about whatever worries we might have while we do it? When are we happiest? These questions can help us discover our ikigai.
Francesc Miralles • Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
To identify your ikigai, ask yourself these four questions: ● What do you love? ● What are you good at? ● What does the world need right now? ● What can you get paid for?
James Evangelista • Going Japanese: Embracing Japanese Wisdom For A Better Life
Sometimes I feel like I’m sitting all alone at the bottom of a well.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
Haiku — a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
“The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism.”
Haruki Murakami
Tiffany Ng • Work better this year or don't, it's your life
The lower shelves were where I kept the paperbacks I figured I’d never read again. The names on the spines, Herman Hesse, Raymond Radiguet, and Kyusaku Yumeno, had all faded in the sun. Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and my Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, Notes from Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov. Chekhov, Camus, Steinbeck. The Odyssey
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