Memento mori VI

The ultimate meditation: If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that—at a time not too distant—each one of us will simply cease to be. It won’t be like going into darkness forever, for there will be neither darkness, nor time, nor sense of futility, nor anyone […]

Memento mori I

The first installment in a recurring series of meditations on death. Compare: Memento Mori — (Latin: remember you will die)–is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” https://dailystoic.com/what-is-memento-mori/

Feel Yourself As Everything

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own, for we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. Know yourself as nothing. Feel yourself as everything.” -Alan Watts Feel Yourself As Everything