Meditations for Mortals
Meditations for Mortals
book by Oliver Burkeman
Themes: limits, mortality, acceptance, attention, time, sufficiency
Release date: 01-07-2026
Reading status: Read
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My conversations helped me recognise a deeper issue, too, which is the way our ceaseless efforts to get into the driver’s seat of life seem to sap it of the very sense of aliveness that makes it worth living in the first place.