Tag: Simple

Slow Down

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Slowing down doesn’t necessarily mean meditating. Slowing down means paying more attention to the space in your life – inside and out. It means not running off to the movie theatre or becoming a zombie in front of the TV whenever you have free time. Do something more natural to slow down: Take time to rock in a rocking chair or sit in the garden and look at the lilies.

~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist Teacher, Author & Abstract Painter

~ Quote Source:  Mindfulbalance.org

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On Wabi Sabi …

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Wabi implies a stillness with an air of rising above the mundane. It’s an acceptance of reality and an insight that comes with that. It allows us to realize that whatever our situation, there is beauty hiding somewhere… The feeling generated by recognizing the beauty found in simplicity… A sense of quiet contentment found away from the trappings of a materialistic world.

― Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.

~ Richard Powell

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Keep Only The Things That Make You Happy

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Choose two or three objects per day that you haven’t used in a while, and give or throw them away: food, medicine, and cosmetics that have passed their use-by date, clothes you haven’t worn in years, books you’ve read but won’t read again, appliances that are just taking up space. If you get rid of them, you don’t lose but gain. Uncluttered space is a source of comfort and relaxation, and you are left with only the things that make you happy.

~ Haemin Sunim, Love For Imperfect Things

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A Simple Life

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Simplicity is one of the most beautiful joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumer society we live in has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
~ The Happy Buddha, from Happiness and How It happens

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