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This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …

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Is meditating on death like putting on a fur coat in summer?

Submitted by on March 30, 2018 – 4:39 pm No Comment

Memento mori – invitations to reflect on our own mortality – have been common throughout history. Two ancient traditions that made reflection on death central to their paths are Buddhism and Stoicism. For both, the starting point is the fact that our normal perceptions of value are deeply flawed, as we are constantly craving or loathing things that in reality are unimportant.

Source: Is meditating on death like putting on a fur coat in summer? | Aeon Ideas

My Comments:  This is one of the most interesting if not important piece that I read at Aeon.

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