Category: Pyschology
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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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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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The Symbolic Meaning of a Water Fountain
The water represents the energy, the ambrosia of eternity pouring into the field of time. The endless flowing, the continuous flowing, represents the eternal nature of this mystical dimension and also the infinite nature of its source. Since you can’t see the water’s source, that represents that it’s coming from the ground of being and also…
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The Basic Theme of All Mythology
Opening the world to the dimension of mystery. To realize the mystery that underlies all forms. “That’s the message of the myth: you as you know yourself are not the final term of your being.” Joseph Campbell: The indication is of a notion of a plane of being that’s behind the visible plane and which…
