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Key Takeaway: The Stoic meditation on mortality: remembering that you will die gives life its urgency, clarity, and meaning.
The Stoic meditation on mortality: remembering that you will die gives life its urgency, clarity, and meaning. This practice appears throughout Stoic literature, most famously in Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and Seneca's Letters -- a source of clarity, urgency, and gratitude, not morbidity. • Remembering death can return life to itself. • Most fear grows in imagination before reality.
As the Stoic philosophers — particularly Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations and Seneca in his Letters — wrote, The Stoic meditation on mortality: remembering that you will die gives life its urgency, clarity, and meaning.
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