Rosa Bertram Spiritualiteit 6 feb 2020, 06:00

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Dit zijn de 20 mooiste quotes van Leo Babauta

In de Bedrock-serie ‘de mooiste quotes van’ delen we regelmatig inspirerende citaten van wijze mensen. Eerder kwamen Mathma Gandhi, Alain de Botton en Jezus al aan bod, dit keer is het tijd voor Leo Babauta. Je kent hem misschien van zijn wereldbekende, inspirerende blog Zen Habits over het implementeren van zengewoonten in je leven. 

Leo Babauta is naast schrijver, zenleerling (zo noemt hij zichzelf), ook veganist én minimalist. Oh, en hij heeft zichzelf geschoold. Hij schreef boeken als Zen to Done, The Power of Less, 52 Changes en The simple guide to a minimalist life.

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Mooiste quotes van Leo Babauta

Dit zijn de meest inspirerende quotes van deze zen master:

1. “Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.”
2. “The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.”
3. “The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”
4. “At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.”
5. “The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
   A soft place to land
   A wide margin of error
   Room to breathe
   Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day”
6. “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
7. “Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life”
8. “Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.”
9. “The beginning is half of every action.” Greek Proverb”
10. “Sometimes hard stuff needs to be done in order to make the stuff you love possible”
11. “Doing a huge number of things doesn’t mean you’re getting anything meaningful done.”
12. “Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference”
13. “The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.” – Goethe”
14. “Happiness isn’t in the future, it’s not somewhere else. It’s available right inside us, right now, all the time.”
15. “If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” – Wu-Men”
16. “The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.”
17. “Knowing thousands of recipes doesn’t feed you, unless you start cooking”
18. “1. Clutter is a manifestation of a) holding onto the past and b) fear of what might happen in the future.”
19. “We may feel productive when we’re constantly switching between things, constantly doing something, but in all honesty, we’re not. We’re just distracted.”
20. “Happiness is not outside ourselves.”

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