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A MEDITATION

“ Perform every act as if it were your last, freed from every random aim, from willful turning away from the directing mind.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 2.5

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A reflection

'As if it were my last' is Marcus's quality filter. Drop everything absent-minded; do the thing deliberately, aware. Even mundane acts sharpen when performed with that awareness.

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