Why Journaling Works: The Research, and Why Writing Makes a Day Durable
8 minA synthesis of journaling research explaining what the evidence shows, why the productivity framing gets it wrong, and why writing makes a day durable.
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Writings on mortality, time, and what fills a finite life. Philosophers and spiritual traditions from across cultures, and original essays from Moment.
Memento Mori and the Christian Tradition
8 minChristian memento mori has two thousand years of history behind it. Scripture, ars moriendi, monastic practice, and modern contemplative writers on dying.
Marcus Aurelius on Beginning the Day and Facing Death
13 minA modern English rendering of Book 2 of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the most concentrated of the twelve books on time, mortality, and beginning the day.
Mortality Meditation: A Plain-Language Guide
8 minHow to meditate on death: a plain-language guide to mortality meditation, including a guided script and the practice's roots across Stoic, Buddhist, Christian, and psychological traditions.
What the Research Says About Memento Mori
8 minDoes memento mori work? A research synthesis distinguishing death anxiety from death reflection, with the evidence for mortality awareness as a deliberate practice.
Maranasati: How to Practice Mindfulness of Death
12 minA guide to the Buddhist meditation on death known as maranasati: what it is, the cemetery contemplations, how to practice it daily, and how it relates to other death-awareness traditions.
On the Shortness of Life
20 minA modern English translation of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitae), with a summary of his argument that life is long enough if you know how to use it.