ikigai

But his family says if you take away his fishing, then you take away his ikigai, a Japanese word that means "reason for living."

CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2005 2005

But his family says if you take away his fishing, then you take away his ikigai, a Japanese word that means "reason for living."

CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2005 2005

Women in Okinawa also tend to be spiritual leaders, which imbues them with a sense of purpose, or "ikigai," Buettner said.

The Albert Lea Tribune 2009

The Blue Zone citizens all move their bodies regularly, they have built ingrained social rituals that create space to decompress and downshift regularly, they have developed the intellectual constructs and vocabulary to articulate purpose in life (see the concept of ikigai, literally translated as "what gets you up in the morning" from Okinawa).

Daniel Cook: The Architecture of Collective Intelligence: Blue Zones & Yoga Nutrition 2010

The Blue Zone citizens all move their bodies regularly, they have built ingrained social rituals that create space to decompress and downshift regularly, they have developed the intellectual constructs and vocabulary to articulate purpose in life (see the concept of ikigai, literally translated as "what gets you up in the morning" from Okinawa).

Daniel Cook: The Architecture of Collective Intelligence: Blue Zones & Yoga Nutrition Daniel Cook 2010

On Okinawa people say “hara hachi bu” — “eat until you are 80 percent full”; and “ikigai” — “the reason for waking up in the morning.”

Live Long and Prosper in the Blue Zones (book review) 2008

On Okinawa people say “hara hachi bu” — “eat until you are 80 percent full”; and “ikigai” — “the reason for waking up in the morning.”

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

In Okinawa, it's ikigai, this sense of purpose, the reason for which they wake up in the morning that sort of propels them through -- through -- into their 100s in many cases.

CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2005 2005

In Okinawa, it's ikigai, this sense of purpose, the reason for which they wake up in the morning that sort of propels them through -- through -- into their 100s in many cases.

CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2005 2005

In interviews with policy experts, businesspeople, service providers and civic activists, the priority that kept coming up was ikigai, which translates as "life worth living."

StarTribune.com rss feed 2010