Opinion | Living to Die Well
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Opinion | Living to Die Well
The fruit of frequent and deep reflection on death will be that you will find yourself “emerging,” often with a sense of disgust, from your habitual patterns.
Sogyal Rinpoche • The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West
Death Awareness Helps Distinguish Important from Trivial When you contemplate mortality, you get better at telling the difference between things that really matter and things that don't matter much at all.
You have to imagine your own death. When your time comes, what will you regret not doing? What will you wish you had more time to do, and what will have seemed trivial? Think of what you fear losing—those are the things that matter most.