Chapter 4: Guidelines for Christian and monastic good practice (paragraphs 6-8)

Keep the reality of death always before your eyes, have a care about how you act every hour of your life and be sure that God is present everywhere and that he certainly sees and understands what you are about.  (From para. 7 of Ch. 4 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Keeping the reality of death before my eyes is not always pleasant, but it makes me feel more real. It's something I learn from meditation. Each time I say the mantra I practice letting go of my false self to reach the depths of God.