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April 16 - April 22, 2023
What we are experiencing right now will never happen again. And therefore, we must value each moment like a beautiful treasure.
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
each meeting, everything we experience, is a unique treasure that will never be repeated in the same way again. So if we let it slip away without enjoying it, the moment will be lost forever.
Each day could be our last. No one can be sure when they go to sleep that they will open their eyes again the next morning.
This is a typical kaika moment, when something unknown begins to blossom
Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule for progressing from kaika to mankai
a great deal of effort and commitment are required for talent to be realized in all its brilliance.
natural ability requires a huge investment of time in order to be made manifest.”
setting aside other people’s demands to make room for our passion, allowing the reason we feel we were put on the earth to begin to blossom.
if you’re brave enough to do what you love, every day could be the best day of your life.
If you’re alone, the person you’re with is yourself.
When we get mad, it’s almost always due to our interpretation of something that has happened or that someone has done. Therefore, anger keeps us tied to the past, preventing us from enjoying the here and now.
A person who is sad doesn’t pay attention to what’s in front of them—they aren’t in the present—and that’s why we say that they have a “blank stare.”
Fear is an emotion that projects us into the future. When we live in fear, it’s impossible to enjoy what we do and what we have.
If we translate emotions into time, it will be much easier for us to escape them,
simply sit and embrace the moment,
The best moment of your life is always this one.
do one thing at a time, as if it were the most important thing in the world.
whenever you feel overburdened, ask yourself, What can I let go of?
You are a miracle, and there has never been—nor will there ever be—anyone like you.
Each flaw is an invitation to polish a diamond.
profound empathy
expectations are like the wrapping that prevents us from seeing the gift.
“that slight anxiety and dissatisfaction that all living beings constantly feel inside, because we know that change is inevitable.”
Nothing lasts forever, neither good nor bad. Accepting this fact is the key to taking full advantage of the sublime moments life bestows on us and to not losing hope when we go through a rough patch.
meta-emotion: what we feel about what we have felt.
Fresh water gives us more pleasure after thirst.
If we do not wallow in pain, and instead limit ourselves to experiencing it, the pain will gradually fade, and we will be left with a learning experience.
giving ourselves the gift of a beautiful experience
nostalgia and sadness caused by the impermanence of life and all things that exist.
appreciate the preciousness of what one had.
stop orienting ourselves toward new desires, and to begin to sense the magic in everything around us. Happiness lies in wanting nothing outside ourselves, and in appreciating what life has to offer us while it lasts.
“sensitivity to initial conditions”
Though we never know the final consequences of our actions and decisions, every moment holds an essential
What you do now will have a unique and totally different result from what you might do at another time.
Learning to see the beauty of things also allows us to make them beautiful.
While amor fati means accepting that everything that happens to us, even when it’s unpleasant, happens for a reason, it’s up to us to give it a positive meaning, with our attitude and with what we decide to do with what destiny hands us from moment to moment.
the fear human beings have of losing control.
synchronicity is often hidden in everyday details, meaning that it requires a curious and observant outlook.
Writing down our day-to-day experiences makes us more aware of the nuances of reality and trains us to pick up on the subtle messages of chance.
synchronicities appear more frequently in the lives of people experiencing a moment of growth or a high degree of creativity. Spending time with these people will help us fine-tune our antenna, since they can show us things we might not otherwise have noticed.
increases the bandwidth of our perception.
Japanese culture has always distinguished itself by reworking Chinese traditions
It highlights them, giving objects a new personality. Having problems is part of being alive. It is our difficulties and how we face them, more than our periods of contentment, that shape us throughout the course of our lives.
The bottom line is when we are listened to, we feel connected. When we’re not listened to, we feel separate.”
“Human beings memorize three percent of what we see, five percent of what we hear, and thirty-five percent of what we smell.”
“Parties are mostly thrown for those who aren’t invited.”
ichie.
That's why family holidays work: the banter, the anger, the reconciliation and those moments, like stupid photographs, never to be reproduced
creating our future memories
lack of attention to others.
