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46. Keep death daily before your eyes. Rule of St Benedict https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50040/pg50040-images.html#chapter-4 https://gutenberg.org/cache/

• capableweb 4y ago
  This has helped me a lot to (what it feels like) take care more about what I spend my time on. As extra help, I have a printed page from https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html of the final "Your Life in Weeks" image which I fill out every week. Puts yet another perspective on the very same thing. Some people when they see it feel like it's macabre or stressful but it has the opposite effect on me, especially when dealing with problems that in hindsight are trivial.
• 6502nerdface 4y ago
  Personally, I hang a "memento mori" near every mirror in the house, to remind him who would regard himself that what he sees will one day inevitably return to the earth.
  • bruce343434 4y ago
    That seems rather anxiety inducing. "Remember that you will die" is the saying, not "be obsessed with it".
    • 6502nerdface 4y ago
      Mostly they're just cool as works of art :). Still lifes with skulls and such.
• TheFreim 4y ago
  5:00AM every morning I receive a reminder on my phone: "You will die someday."
  • brookst 4y ago
    I get text messages like that. Still don’t know who it is.
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• darkarmani 4y ago
  Stoic praemeditatio malorum.
• Rebelgecko 4y ago
  Why is it a different number in the Sqlite Code of Ethics? https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html