Learn more about philosophy with this collection
How to create a cosy and comfortable home environment
How to cultivate a sense of gratitude and contentment
The benefits of slowing down and enjoying simple pleasures
Memento Mori
Part of the stoic practice is related to meditating on the certainty of death and finding freedom is it instead of being overwhelmed by it.
Thinking about death highlights the short duration of life; this practice gives us a sense of urgency to pursue the things that are important to us. Without this sense of urgency that happens when we think about death, it becomes easy for us to postpone things, to push them for an undefined "tomorrow" until it's too late.
1.88K
8.7K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Evoking Sad Emotions Deliberately
Seeking out artistic cues to catalyze emotions that previously you've tried to avoid will help you to relate differently to events like death. Because most likely what you're horrified about is not so much death, but the way you're emotionally relating to the concept of d...
1.4K
7.26K reads
Thinking About Sad Moments: An Empowering Practice
Death for example is outside of your control and it happens to everyone.
But you can control the way you relate to it: instead of viewing it as a moment of immense sadness, make it a great catalyzing help.
1.43K
8.56K reads
A Simplified Definition Of Stoicism
It is a philosophical system that concentrates on separating the things you can control from the things you cannot control and then teaches you to introduce in your daily routine habits that help you focus most of your energy on the things that are under your control.
2.03K
14.4K reads
What You Resist Tends To Persist
Think about how you relate to the emotions you don't want to feel and that you try to avoid: sadness or anger for example.
But these negative emotions are going to come up and when you identify them as bad and try to refuse them with all your energy, what happens is that you give them even...
1.58K
7.36K reads
Related collections
More like this
Tomorrow Is A Bonus, Not A Right
Never delay your peacefulness. Your life can fall apart within an hour. Accidents, illness, loss and death happen every day. It's human nature to think these things will never occur. Yet all wise philosophers teach us of the transience of our existence.
Tomorrow is a promise, not a fact....
Shared beliefs of a culture bubble
It's not hard evidence that gives us our sense of certainty. Its the feedback of our peers that guides us to tell right from wrong.
We all have beliefs we feel passionate about. Perhaps it is that all animals deserve to be treated with compassion and respect. When someone ...
The Trap of Overthinking
Overthinking becomes an endless cycle of thinking through options, researching it, and through the research finding even more things to think about.
The uncertainty in this kind of thinking is what keeps us stuck in indecision.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates