Clear Quote by Marie Kondo

The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

— Becca

“Sometimes when we're feeling stuck in a rut, we can get clear by physically decluttering our homes. Getting rid of objects that hold past…

— Robin S. Baker

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes,…

— Erykah Badu

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the…

— Tadao Ando

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

— Hayao Miyazaki

“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live…

— C. JoyBell C

“Historically, Buddhist monks hoping to detach themselves from lust and curb their desire for permanence would meditate on the form of a rotting corpse.…

— Caitlin Doughty

I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is…

— William Gibson

We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits,…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so,…

— Plutarch

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation…

— Honore de Balzac

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages…

— Thomas B. Macaulay