🖼️ Philosophy and Simple Living, A Long Life, and Being Open to Negative Experiences
Monday Muse (Vol. 43)
Dear Readers,
Here is the latest Monday Muse with a meditation from our Dying Every Day series, a perennial reminder, and a perennial insight to consider.
Be wise and be well this week!
💀 Dying Every Day
The Dying Every Day series is now part of the Monday Muse! This series focuses on delivering Stoic meditations on the art of living. Each meditation provides a quote, a selected passage (from an original Stoic text), and a daily exercise.
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📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
Your time here is short, very short; take another look at the way in which you spend it. Here man is today; tomorrow, he is lost to view; and once a man is out of sight, it’s not long before he passes out of mind. … What’s the use of having a long life, if there’s so little improvement to shew for it? Improvement? Unfortunately it happens, only too often, that the longer we live the more we add to our guilt. If only we could point to one day in our life here that was really well spent! […]
Source: Meditations on Death by Thomas A’ Kempis
💡 Perennial Insight(s)
It may appear paradoxical that being open to negative experience is an effective way to have a positive experience of life, but this is the Buddhist, or fruitional, position. The view explored in this book is that although improving our sense of self and our life circumstances is valuable, this ongoing effort to have more that’s positive and less that’s negative will never result in the experience of freedom. And experiencing one’s life as an expression of freedom is seen as the most positive and satisfying way to participate in this precious human adventure. […]
Source: Already Free by Bruce Tift
🎧 Recent Podcast(s)
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Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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