Dying Every Day
Welcome to Dying Every Day on the Perennial Meditations podcast. This series is focused on compiling a year of Stoic meditations on the art of living. Each meditation delivers a quote, a selected passage, and a daily exercise.
“What man can you show me who values his time, reckons each day's worth, and understands that he is dying daily?”
— Seneca
Nothing is Ours Except Time
We are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years behind us are in death’s hands.
Therefore, Lucilius, do as you write me that you are doing: hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold on today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Nothing is ours except time. Nature entrusted us with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery… What fools we mortals are!
+Adapted from On Saving Time by Seneca
