“Through the process of selecting only those things that inspire joy, you can identify precisely what you love and what you need.”

Your storage space is your private paradise, so personalize it to the fullest.

Don’t you think it is unnatural for us to possess things that don’t bring us joy or things that we don’t really need?

Now imagine yourself living in a space that contains only things that spark joy. Isn’t this the lifestyle you dream of?

If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order after.

Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.

Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.

Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.

It’s far more important to adorn your home with the things you love than to keep it so bare it lacks anything that brings you joy.

No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.

Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.

Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.

Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.

The ultimate secret of success is this: If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.

In essence, tidying ought to be the act of restoring balance among people, their possessions, and the house they live in.

From the moment you start tidying, you will be compelled to reset your life. As a result, your life will start to change.

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.

So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn’t expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don’t identify with anything. Be completely empty – no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.