Day 140: The Instruction No One Wants

About this episode

This episode explores the insights of a Roman emperor and a sixth-century monk on the importance of contemplating death for wisdom.

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 140. Happy Easter to everyone celebrating this weekend! Today's meditation sits inside this season deliberately. We are going to spend some time with two men who refused to look away from death: a Roman emperor writing alone in his journal, and a sixth-century monk writing rules for living. Both believed that keeping death close was not pessimism but rather the beginning of wisdom. [...] --- 🖇️ Stay Connected: Newsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations --- 🦉 Additional Resources: Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive Listen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts

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Host: Perennial Leader Project

Topics covered

• death
• wisdom
• meditation
• Stoicism
• living rules
• Easter

Keywords

• Stoicism
• meditation
• death
• wisdom
• Easter
• living rules
• philosophy

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