溫故知新 Old wisdom, today’s insight — ONGO
All Return to the Same Dust
When the snow falls alike on the living and the dead, how are we to regard the boundary between life and death?
Death is but a process of nature; it returns child and king, rich and poor, alike to the dust.
Aurelius said death is but a process of nature, returning child and king alike to the dust.
📝The Classic Answers
Aurelius said death is but a process of nature, returning child and king alike to the dust. In these calm words I see a humility that joins the living and the dead. As the snow beyond the window falls without distinction on the roofs of the living and the graves of the dead, death settles evenly upon all. This fact, rather than making life empty, awakens the truth that I who live now and those already gone are, in the end, within one current. When we regard the dead not as a fearsome other but as friends who went ahead, life grows humble and warm instead. Rather than dividing the living and the dead in fear, I choose to remember them as one household beneath the same snow.
🌱Apply It Today
When you recall someone who went before, regard them not as a fearsome or sorrowful other but as 'a friend who walked the same life ahead,' and quietly send them a greeting.
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