ExerciseInspired by Heidegger
Facing your own death to return to yourself
For , fleeing the thought of death means letting yourself live the way "one" lives, diluted in habits and the expectations of others. Anticipating your own death, the one death no one can take on in your place, singles you out and returns you to what you truly want: this is . Today this exercise is an antidote to autopilot, a way to take back the reins of an life rather than one merely endured.
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- Death · Living in view of one's death
Source: Heidegger
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- Taming the fear — The sages proposed exercises for living without being haunted by it, dwelling on it daily or not at all: can philosophy truly cure us of this fear, or does it cling to us too hard to yield?