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‘Ikigai’ (ee-key-guy) is a small word with a profound meaning. Translated from Japanese, ‘ikigai’ means reason to live.
It is a fascinating concept, and has many quotes related to acceptance and living in the moment, nature and beauty, health and longevity, movement, happiness, purpose, and passion.
Ikigai can be defined as ‘a sense of being alive now, an individual’s consciousness as a motive to live.’
– Aikihiro Hasegawa
Acceptance & Living in the Moment Quotes
There is no future, no past. There is only the present.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
Stop regretting the past and fearing the future. Today is all you have. Make the most of it. Make it worth remembering.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
We don’t create our feelings; they simply come to us, and we have to accept them. The trick is, to welcome them.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
Nature & Beauty
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
-Frances Hodgson Burnett
In Japanese culture, there’s a belief that only imperfect objects, like a cracked teacup, can truly be beautiful. This is called wabi-sabi. Try to let go of the quest for perfection, and instead accept the beauty that lies in all of life’s imperfections. The result will be extra energy, less stress and a longer life.
-Blinkist
Only things that are imperfect, incomplete, and ephemeral can truly be beautiful, because only those things resemble the natural world.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
-Lord Byron
Health & Longevity
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
-William Penn
Just possibly, ikigai makes a Peter Pan of all of us. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. Let us all be twelve years old! Youthfulness of mind is important in ikigai, but so is commitment and passion, however seemingly insignificant your goal.
-Ken Mogi
Movement and Flow in Ikigai
Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.
-Japanese Proverb
Keep going; don’t change your path.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
Whatever you do, don’t retire!
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
As soon as you take these first small steps, your anxiety will disappear and you will achieve a pleasant flow in the activity you’re doing.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
The happiest people are not the ones who achieve the most. They are the ones who spend more time than others in a state of flow.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
Can someone really retire if he is passionate about what he does?
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
Happiness
If you can make the process of making the effort your primary source of happiness, then you have succeeded in the most important challenge of your life.
-Ken Mogi
Savor this moment as if it were your last breath. You can live only one day at a time, and no one can be certain that they will wake up the next morning. So let’s not postpone happiness. The best moment in your life is always this one.
-Garcia and Miralles
Ikigai translated into English as ‘life purpose’ sounds quite formidable, but ikigai need not be the one overriding purpose of a person’s life. In fact, the word life aligns more with daily life. In other words, ikigai can be about the joy a person finds living day-to-day, without which their life as a whole would not be a happy one.
-Akihiro Hasegawa
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-Joseph Addison
Ikigai is the action we take in pursuit of happiness.
-Yukari Mitsuhashi
Community & Family
Find your own ikigai by asking yourself how you want to serve your community. If you are undecided, remember your dreams from when you were younger, maybe in your youth.
-Tsutomu Hotta
Young people often say, ‘My life has no ikigai.’ This is obvious. People who isolate themselves can’t have ikigai – meaning or purpose. Meaning and purpose is only found in interpersonal relationships.
-Tatsuzō Ishikawa
“Treat everyone like a brother, even if you’ve never met them before.” It turns out that one of the secrets to happiness of Ogimi’s residents is feeling like part of a community.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
A man is like a forest; individual and yet connected and dependent on others for growth.
-Ken Mogi
Purpose, Meaning, & Passion
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-Robert Byrne
Above all, he has to find his purpose, his reason for getting out of bed, his ikigai.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
What is the one thing you’d like to change the most in the world? − Currently, what is it that makes you very happy and joyful in life? − What makes you wake up in the morning and go through your day?
-Alan Daron
Our ikigai is different for all of us, but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning. When we spend our days feeling connected to what is meaningful to us, we live more fully; when we lose the connection, we feel despair.
-Hector Garcia Puigcerver
Once you discover your ikigai, pursuing it and nurturing it every day will bring meaning to your life.
-Francesc Miralles
Ikigai gives your life a purpose while giving you the grit to carry on.
-Ken Mogi
Bottom line
“We don’t create the meaning of our life, we discover it!”
Question
Have you discovered your IKIGAI?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-ikigai
https://positivepsychology.com/ikigai/
https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-ikigai
https://ikigai-living.com/what-is-ikigai/
https://www.brit.co/ikigai-10-things-worlds-longest-living-people-do/
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Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means your ‘reason for being’.
The term compounds two Japanese words: iki (生き, meaning ‘life; alive’) and kai (甲斐, meaning ‘(an) effect; (a) result; (a) fruit; (a) worth; (a) use; (a) benefit; a reason for living [being alive]; a meaning for [to] life; what [something that] makes life worth living; a raison d’être’.
The word has a number of translations, and all of them are correct:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines ikigai as “a motivating force; something or someone that gives a person a sense of purpose or a reason for living”. Generally, it may refer to something that brings pleasure or fulfillment.
A literal translation doesn’t quite give insight into the term and its importance.
Understanding IKAGAI
The concept of ikigai is said to have evolved from the basic health and wellness principles of traditional Japanese medicine. This medical tradition holds that physical well-being is affected by one’s mental/emotional health and sense of purpose in life.
Japanese psychologist Michiko Kumano (2017) has said that ikigai is a state of well-being that arises from devotion to activities one enjoys, which also brings a sense of fulfillment.
Ken Mogi, a neuroscientist and author of Awakening Your Ikigai, says that ikigai is an ancient and familiar concept for the Japanese, which can be translated simply as “a reason to get up in the morning” or, more poetically, “waking up to joy.”
Your ikigai doesn’t have to be one unique talent that drives you to share the best of yourself until the very end. This contradicts the Japanese perspective of ikigai. Japanese author, Ken Mogi describes ikigai as a spectrum, and that you can have several ikigai, anything from enjoying your morning coffee to working towards a life-defining goal.
Ikigai also appears related to the concept of flow, as described in the work of Hungarian–American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Flow is a string of “best moments” or moments when we are at our best. These best moments “usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limit, in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”. Flow can be said to occur when you are consistently doing something you love and that you are good at, with the possible added benefit of bringing value to others’ lives. In such a case, the flow might be seen as in tune with your ikigai, or activities that give your life meaning and purpose.
It is important to note that ikigai does not typically refer only to one’s personal purpose and fulfillment in life, without regard to others or society at large. Ikigai brings meaning, purpose, and fulfillment to your life, while also contributing to the good of others.
Further, it is said that everyone has an ikigai – their particular intersection of passion, talent, and potential to benefit others. It is only a matter of finding it.
The 10 Rules of IKIGAI
The book IKIGAI: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, concludes with 10 rules of ikigai. These are suggestions or habits one could adopt to improve one’s health and well-being, so as to live your ikigai.
“Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years”.
-Japanese Proverb
“Walk slowly and you’ll go far.”
-Old Saying
“Hara Hachi Bu: Fill your belly to 80%”.
-Japanese Saying
“People who isolate themselves can’t have ikigai – meaning or purpose. Ikigai is only found in interpersonal relationships”.
– Ishikawa Tatsuzō
“The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not ‘this moment.’ Is this not a fact?”
– Eckhart Tolle
Bottom Line
If you don’t know what your ikigai is yet,
your mission should be to discover it.”
Question
Have you discovered your IKIGAI?
Suggestions and value additions are most welcome
Please share your IKIGAI in the comments column. It may help someone else discover theirs.
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References and credits
To all the online sites and channels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-ikigai
https://positivepsychology.com/ikigai/
https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-ikigai
https://ikigai-living.com/what-is-ikigai/
https://www.brit.co/ikigai-10-things-worlds-longest-living-people-do/
Disclaimer:
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