Memento is a contemplative practice for what to do with them.
This is your life, rendered honestly. Most apps would now sell you productivity. We won’t.
Four questions that contemplative traditions have returned to across centuries.
Memento Mori
On Mortality
“What does the fact of death ask of you?”
Memento Pulchri
On Beauty
“Are you awake to the world?”
Memento Vitae
On Purpose
“What is your life for?”
Memento Sensus
On Meaning
“What endures, and what matters?”
Most contemplative traditions — Stoic, Buddhist, Christian, Taoist — converge on some version of these four questions. They are not puzzles to be solved but orientations to be sustained. Those who take them seriously as a daily practice report that they change a life not suddenly but quietly, like water moving stone.
Memento offers one short contemplation each day, drawn from these four streams. There are no streaks, no notifications, no points, and no gamification of any kind. Each contemplation is simply a question and a moment of stillness in which to attend to it.
You do not need to commit to anything. Try a single contemplation right now — sit with it for a minute, write something if you wish, and see what it asks of you.
Memento Mori— On Mortality
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
— Marcus Aurelius
Given this, what is one thing you want to do today?
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