Category: Philosophy
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The Essence of the Marie Kondo KonMarie Decluttering Philosopy
“When you pick up an item, feel it and think, ‘Does this make my heart skip a beat?’” – KonMarie, [Youtube Video Link] “In the KonMari Method even the contents of a drawer that is hidden away should spark joy in you.” – [12:08 Mark in NHK Video] “It is very important to choose what…
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The Key That Makes the KonMarie Method Work Better than Others
The Indians addressed life as a ‘thou.’ I mean trees, stones, and everything else. You can address anything as a “thou,” and you can feel the change in your psychology as you do it. – Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth, Ep. 3, The First Story Tellers, 25m 32s Holding an old pair of Eddie…
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What Marie Kondo Means by Spark Joy
“You can also define things that spark joy as things that make you happy.” – Marie Kondo, “Spark Joy,” pg. 82 “It is very important to choose what you want to keep rather than what you want to throw away in tidying. In other words, you choose from what’s in your house things that you…
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The Cure for Fear is Following Your Bliss
“I’ve said in the ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces’ that if you go on your own proper voyage, there will be protection, magical aid to come to protect you. If it’s not your proper voyage, that will be missing, and you’ll be in trouble. But if it’s the voyage of your own spirit and soul…
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How to Find Your Purpose Part 2: Becoming and Worthiness
And I realized that when you set yourself on a path to really follow your heart’s desires, the dreams that you were born with, the dreams that are deepest in your genotype tend to find you or you find them. – Martha Beck “The key is you’ve gotta do what speaks to your soul,…
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How To Find Your Purpose In Life
Give serious attention to what comes naturally to you… to what gets YOU juiced… to what gets YOU moving at the start of each day. — Bob Proctor (@bobproctorLIVE) February 23, 2015 Update (Later the Same Day): You here this phrase all the time: “Why have I been put on this earth?” Part of our…