Greetings Readers!
Today is our final meditation of the Perennial Habits course. Thank you to everyone who participated in the course over the last seven weeks! In the coming week, I’ll send out a reading list and links to all of the meditations.
In an essay titled, To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die, Michel de Montaigne (1533—1592) explained that the usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Similarly, more than sixty entries of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations touch on death and the transient nature of all things. The topic of death gives Meditations a reoccurring theme of urgency: there is no time to waste.
A recent episode of The Wisdom School, titled You Could Leave Life Right Now —shared a short meditation inspired by Marcus Aurelius,
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The Art of Living (and Dying)
In my conversation with David Fideler (author of Breakfast with Seneca), he revealed that the sales of Letters from a Stoic by Seneca increased more than 700 percent during the pandemic. Interestingly, many of us wait until we are in the midst of a storm before beginning to search for philosophy.
