Marie Kondo is a interior design<\/a> consultant and author. She has attained fame by giving advise to people looking to simplify their dwellings and rooms, with one book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, published in more than 30 countries. In 2018 a TV series debuted on Netflix, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, debuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Born on October 9, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, her zodiac sign is Libra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marie cites her religious belief as Shintoism but not in a hardline way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t particularly have specific religious connotations to Shintoism in my daily life, but it is true that I did have a part-time job at a Shinto shrine when I was younger, so I think that is what that has to do with it. It is reflected in some ways,\u201d Marie explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo Shintoism, for me, is not particularly a religion in my life, but it is a natural habit in our daily life. Shintoism, for Japanese people, is not the same religious feeling as a lot of American people might feel, but is pretty much blended into our daily lifestyle or habits. It influences me, but not as strongly as you might think.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Kondo has always loved tidying and began as a child, she told Googlers<\/a> in 2015, though she became serious about it as a teenager reading her mother\u2019s Japanese magazines about organizing. She also worked part-time at a Shinto shrine as an administrative assistant. At age 19 in college, she started an organizing business to earn extra money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShintoism, for me, is not particularly a religion in my life, but it is a natural habit in our daily life,\u201d Kondo told a reddit<\/a> user in 2015. \u201cShintoism, for Japanese people, is not the same religious feeling as a lot of American people might feel, but is pretty much blended into our daily lifestyle or habits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most Japanese people, like Kondo, don\u2019t consider themselves religious, though they follow many Shinto and Buddhist customs. Confucianism and Taoism (from China) also have an influence, and to a lesser degree because it\u2019s seen as a Western religion, Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shintoism is concerned mostly with life on earth, teaching that natural objects contain various gods (called kamis) and ancestors with supernatural powers. Shinto followers don\u2019t believe in a Supreme Being, and there\u2019s hardly a belief system to adhere to. Instead, Shintoism is about performing rituals to revere kamis and the divinities in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many Japanese visit Shinto shrines to pray for good luck, business success, good exam results, fertility, health, and general happiness. In a recent PBS documentary, Sacred<\/em>, a young Japanese couple visits an offbeat Shinto shrine surrounded by penis statues, and leaves a penis charm on a shelf next to others, with a written wish for a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kondo is married to Takumi Kawahara. They have two children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe\u2019s still only six months, but when she\u2019s a little older, of course, I\u2019ll teach her how to tidy. Even now, when I\u2019m folding clothes, she watches how it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n A post shared by Marie Kondo (@mariekondo) on Jan 27, 2016 at 10:08am PST<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA lot of people hit a roadblock because they feel they have to throw something away, but that\u2019s not the point. It\u2019s about understanding what needs to go versus what\u2019s important to you.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marie Kondo is a interior design consultant and author. 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Marie Kondo Religion Marie cites her religious belief as Shintoism but not in a hardline way. \u201cI don\u2019t particularly have specific religious connotations to Shintoism in my daily life, but it is true…<\/p>\n","category_list":"Celebrity Beliefs<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Theresa Robbins","url":"https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/author\/theresa-robbins\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kondo.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kondo-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kondo-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kondo-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kondo-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kondo-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/fabcelebrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kondo.jpg",1920,1080,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"Marie Kondo Religion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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