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/

Happiness Is Strange

“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti Happiness Is Strange

A Terrible Love of War

The body craves ecstasy. If the body cannot reach ecstatic states in constructive ways, it will seek them in destructive ways. War gins up anger in its prosecutors so that it becomes rage, an ecstasy. War gins up fear in its victims so that it becomes terror, another ecstasy. To forestall war, seek to live […]