You Will Be Here Maps Marker on Skull Design | What You Are I Once Was | Memento Mori | Midweight Cotton Unisex TeeOur mind is so darkened by the fall that unless we force ourselves to remember death we can completely forget about it. When we forget about death, then we begin to live on earth as if we were immortal, and we sacrifice all our activity to the world without concerning ourselves in the least either about the fearful transition to eternity or about our fate in eternity. Then we boldly and peremptorily override the commandments of Christ; then we commit

the emulation of Christ

and yet they are ready to accept everything with great enthusiasm

so the thought of death is the most necessary of all works

+ Abba Moses the Strong

struck with the palms of the hand

and say to the breath

and that their (temporary) separation at the death of the body is an unnatural state of affairs precipitated by the Fall

Paradise opened

and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me

One day this whole corruptible world will come to an end

But the wonder is

but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal