You Are Dying Every Day | The Wake Up
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
“It’s easy to see death as this thing that lies off in the distant future. Even those of us who choose not to live in denial of our mortality can be guilty of this. We think of dying as an event that happens to us. It’s stationary—whatever date it will happen at—and we’re moving towards it, slowly or quickly, depending on our age and health.”
Ryan reminds us of the power that can be found in remembering our mortality, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.7 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.7 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.5 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.6 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:38.3 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.4 | You are dying every day |
| 0:44.4 | It's easy to see death as this thing that lies off in the distant future |
| 0:49.6 | Even those of us who choose not to live in denial of our mortality can be guilty of this |
| 0:55.1 | We think of dying as an event that happens to us. It's stationary whatever date it will happen at and that we're moving towards it slowly or quickly |
| 1:05.6 | Depending on our age or health |
| 1:08.0 | Senica felt that this was the wrong way to think about it that it was a mistaken view that enabled many bad habits and much bad living |
| 1:16.1 | Instead, she said death was a process. It was happening to us right now |
| 1:22.8 | We are dying every day. He said even as you listen to this podcast time is passing that you will never get back |
| 1:31.9 | That time he said belongs to death powerful right |
| 1:37.0 | Death doesn't lie off in the distance. It is with us right now |
| 1:41.3 | It is the second hand on the clock. It is the setting sun as the arrow of time moves death follows |
| 1:47.7 | Claiming every moment that is passed. What ought we do about it? The answer is live |
| 1:54.0 | Live while you can put nothing off leave nothing unfinished |
| 1:58.6 | Seize it while it still belongs to us |
| 2:01.6 | Lamento more |
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