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The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

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“An essential ingredient to hygge is the boundary that marks a place or delineates a moment - a fence, a circle of cushions or a stolen half hour.”

Embrace Shelter Moment Place Hygge Essential Enclosure

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“...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night. To stand at our window, wrapped in the half-dark and watch the day disappear... is a moment of hygge.”

Night Pleasure Twilight Day Moment Hygge Watch Observe Pause Darken

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“Hygge is evoked in situations where there is nothing to accomplish but letting go to the present moment in a way that's more aligned to simple pleasure than deep reflection.”

Simple Pleasure Present Moment Hygge

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“Hygge happens when we commit to the pleasure of the present moment in its simplicity. It's there in the things we do that give everyday life value and meaning, that comfort us, make us feel at home, rooted and generous.”

Life Pleasure Comfort Simplicity Value Commit Generous Present Moment Hygge

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“There is a simple fidelity to the moment that we experience through hygge. ...we adjust our surroundings to guide our energy and desire. Hygge pays attention to the concerns of the human spirit, turning us towards a manner of living that priorities simple pleasure, friendship and connection above consumption.”

Desire Energy Experience Simplicity Moment Fidelity Guide Hygge Adjust Surrounding

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“Hygge is a practice related to how we create and preserve meaning in the places we inhabit, how we make homes that comfort us and bring us together. ...then we begin to really inhabit a place or a moment in time and open ourselves to what it has to give.”

Home Together Practice Comfort Meaning Moment Create Hygge Preserve Inhabit

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“The flip side of an experience of enjoyment is the certainty that it won't last forever, Today's moment of hygge will be tomorrow's memory. With that awareness, we give ourselves over to the moment more completely.”

Today Forever Tomorrow Experience Memory Moment Give Hygge Last Completely

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“When we hygger, we frame the moment, give it our full attention, savour and hold it, in an awareness that the moment will pass. We feel how one moment becomes layered on to the next; past and present mingled together - everything falling into place, into one accord.”

Past Attention Present Moment Aware Hygge Hold Savour Frame Mingle

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“In its aspect of comfort, hygge involves a sense of wellbeing which encourages relaxation and peacefulness. It excludes by definition a distracted or preoccupied state of mind: hygge is commitment par excellence to the present moment in its basics. In the words of Hartmann-Petersen, 'Hygge rushes in of itself as soon as one is carefree.' -Judith Friedman Hansen”

Peace Comfort Senses Commit Relax Present Moment Wellbeing Hygge Carefree

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“It must be emphasized that hygge entails commitment to the present moment and a readiness to set distractions aside.”

Ready Commitment Distraction Present Moment Hygge Aside

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“It must be emphasized that hygge entails commitment to the present moment and a readiness to set distractions aside. -Judith Friedman Hansen”

Ready Commitment Present Moment Hygge Distractions Aside

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“...the salient feature of hygge is the atmosphere of warm and relaxed enjoyment of the moment which it allows. While it is nurtured by thoughtfulness and mutual involvement, hygge is informal and unrestrained. -Judith Friedman Hansen”

Enjoy Warm Atmosphere Thoughtful Relax Mutual Nurture Moment Hygge Involve

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