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Jul 2024
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Facing Mortality: A Stoic Death Meditati...

JON BROOKS
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A guided meditation on the one certainty we spend most of our lives avoiding. Drawing on Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, this practice helps you sit with the fact of your own death, not to frighten yourself, but to loosen its grip and bring what matters back into focus. You will spend time with the fear itself, imagine the same life with ten years, on ... Show More
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