Periagoge
Problem
Toward Devotion

Come to Terms With Your Mortality

Rumiguide
The Pattern

The fear of death is almost always a fear about life — specifically, a fear that the life being lived isn't the one that would be chosen if you took the finitude seriously. Taking death seriously is actually an act of love toward life.

What Mastery Looks Like

A living relationship with what is sacred, beyond institutional form

Helpful guides
Rumi
Faith & Meaning
Peri
Recognize this pattern?

Peri can help you tell whether this pattern is really the one you’re caught in, and point you toward where to start.

The Path Forward
This pattern is guided by Rumi. When you’re ready to work through it, Rumi can help you find the path — or ask Peri where to start.
Work with Rumi
Related patterns

Patterns that often live alongside this one.

Problem
Find Purpose After Loss
Problem
Get Your Affairs in Order
Problem
Grieve the Life You Imagined
Problem
Live Like Your Time Matters
Problem
Love Again After Loss
Problem
Make the Work You're Afraid to Make

Working through come to terms with your mortality?

Tell Peri what you’re noticing, and start where it actually helps.