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What Would You Tell Someone Just Starting with Stoic memento mori — remember you will die?

Discover how ancient Stoic wisdom on mortality can transform your perspective. Explore what you'd tell someone beginning their memento mori journey.

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What you’ll practice

This is a reflective practice guided by Laozi. It gives you one honest question to sit with — the kind that moves you from thinking about an idea to working with it.

The reflection itself unfolds in conversation with Laozi, where it adapts to your situation — so you practice it together rather than reading it off the page.

Practice this with Laozi
Begin the reflection in a coaching conversation, where it meets what you’re actually working through.
Understand first
The Empty Vessel Principle in Facing MortalityTemporal Wu Wei in Daily LifeZiran: Natural Dying with the DaoReturn to Earth, Release the SelfYin Embracing: Darkness, Receptivity, and Completion
Go deeper
Living with Stoic memento mori — remember you will dieStoic memento mori — remember you will die: FoundationsStoic memento mori — remember you will die: Start HereStoic memento mori — remember you will die: From Confusion to ClarityThe Examined Stoic memento mori — remember you will die
Peri
New to this practice?

Peri can explain what this practice is for, help you decide whether it fits what you’re working through, and point you to the right place to begin.

Ready to practice this?

Begin the reflection with your coach, or tell Peri what you’re working through.