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Mirror 60 · Time

Death

Death does not only end life. It gives life urgency. The awareness that your time is limited is not a source of fear — it is the source of meaning. Without it, you would postpone everything. With it, you have a reason to begin.

The monastery sat on a hillside in the Mustang region of Nepal, a cluster of whitewashed buildings that seemed to grow out of the rock itself. The monks who lived there practiced a form of meditation that the outside world found disturbing: they meditated in a charnel ground, surrounded by the remai...

Reflection question

What would change in your life if you truly believed this?

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