It is a Japanese wisdom for finding the perfect within the imperfect.
It is a philosophy of life. Wabi Sabi is an intuitive response to beauty that reflects the true nature of life.
✦ Wabi Sabi is the acceptance and appreciation of the impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete nature of everything.
✦ Wabi Sabi is an acknowledgment of the gifts of simple, slow, and natural living.
✦ Wabi Sabi is a state of the heart. It is the deep inhalation and the slow exhalation. It is felt in a moment of sincere appreciation; a perfect moment in an imperfect world.
We can cultivate this state if we are willing to notice details and cultivate joy. We experience Wabi Sabi when we are living the most authentic, most soulful version of our lives.
Wabi is the feeling that comes from recognizing that beauty can be found in simplicity. It is a sense of quiet contentment that can be found far away from the trappings of the materialistic world.
Wabi Sabi is a feeling and it is intangible. Your Wabi-Sabi is not the same as anyone else’s, because we each experience the world differently. We feel Wabi-Sabi when we connect with the essence of true beauty; the kind that is unpretentious, imperfect, and therefore much better. This feeling is evoked by a natural beauty that is simple and unadorned.
A Wabi-Sabi lens can inspire us to embrace soulful simplicity and appreciate what we already have.
The greatest lesson to be learned from Wabi-Sabi is the shift in perspective. When you look at the world through the lens of wabi-sabi, the world changes into a more beautiful, gentle, and forgiving place that is full of possibility and joy.
I hope you can see how Wabi-Sabi can be a refreshing antidote to our fast-paced, consumer-driven world.
You are perfectly imperfect, just the way you are.
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