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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Seneca · Letters from a Stoic · paraphrase
What it means today

Death is not the opposite of life; it is the doorway to whatever comes after. The Stoic neither fears it nor fantasizes about it; he treats it as a fact of nature.

Try this todayWhen you think about death today, picture it as a doorway, not a wall.
Today’s questionAm I treating death as an enemy, or as a part of nature?
#death#nature#mortality
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