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Hirai began crying again, touched by Kei’s support.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi • Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series Book 1)
respected Tanchiu Koji Terayama, director of Hitsu Zendo. The English translation of his book’s title is Zen and the Art of Calligraphy (transl. by John Stevens; Penguin Group, 1983).
Sato,Shozo • Shodo: The Quiet Art of Japanese Zen Calligraphy, Learn the Wisdom of Zen Through Traditional Brush Painting
The Japanese have a nice way of putting it: “The day you cease to travel, you will have arrived.”
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Haruki Murakami
Yes. I have a young friend who dreams of becoming a novelist, but who never seems to be able to complete his work. According to him, his job keeps him too busy, and he can never find enough time to write novels, and that’s why he can’t complete work and enter it for writing awards. But is that the real reason? No! It’s actually that he wants to
... See moreFumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
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.
To you, not liking yourself is a virtue.
Notes & Highlights for The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
The overweight in Japan are subjected to immense social pressure to change, including taunts of metabo—short for metabolic syndrome—and unwanted belly-patting from strangers.