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Beth Kempton

Geboren: May 06, 1977 – Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Beth Kempton is a British author and Japanologist whose work explores Japanese wisdom, wellbeing, and the creative life. She is known for Wabi Sabi, The Way of the Fearless Writer, and Kokoro. Her books have been translated into 25 languages, and Wabi Sabi has sold more than 400,000 copies.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Beth Kempton is a British author, entrepreneur and Japanologist whose work grew out of long study, travel and reinvention rather than an early literary career. Trained in Japanese, with two degrees in the subject, she spent years living and working in Japan and traveling widely before building a body of work focused on how people live, create and move through change. A notable turning point came when she translated a broad life of international experience into the first of her nonfiction books, and later into Do What You Love, the education business she founded to help people rethink work, creativity and personal freedom. She has said that although she loved words all her life, she did not begin writing books until she was nearly forty. ((https://bethkempton.com/about/?PageSpeed=noscript))

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In writing it, I set myself free
-Freedom Seeker
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The powerful secret of wabi sabi lies in seeing the world not with the logical mind, but through the feeling heart
-Wabi Sabi
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This changes everything, believe me
-The Way of the Fearless Writer
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I can reach into the hearts of other people and make them feel less alone
-From one writer to another
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Nothing is ever quite perfect, and that’s OK. That’s life
-Letting go of perfect, without sacrificing quality
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May Calm Christmas be a lantern leading you through the darkness of winter, back to the real enchantment of the season
-Calm Christmas
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To explore the kokoro is to explore the very essence of what it means to be human in this tough yet devastatingly beautiful world
-KOKORO
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Come as a pilgrim, offer silence as you climb, and you might just hear a welcome
-Life, death and life again
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The road ahead is long, but we are in this together, and we will get through this together
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"In soothing prose, Beth Kempton helps readers locate the elements they love most about the season"

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"Beth Kempton speaks writer to writer in this mindful approach to the writing life"

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