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Day 58 · Q1: Self-Knowledge · February 27, 2026

Pause. Breathe. Begin.

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Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book VI, §15

“None of us has much time. Yet you behave as if life were endless and fleeting moments were infinite.”
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C O N T E X T

Marcus returns to the Stoic theme of mortality as a lens for clarity. The awareness of death is not morbid but liberating — it strips away the trivial and reveals the essential.

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I I .   M E D I T A T I O

“What would you do differently today if you truly felt the brevity of life?”

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I I I .   S C R I P T I O

Write one sentence about what matters most to you, stripped of pretense.

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I V .   C O N N E X I O

How does today's reading connect to what you have read before?

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Tomorrow's passage, delivered at dawn.