A Mantra of Mutual Interdependence (Day 276)

10/3/2019

Image Credit: Wm. E. Ashton, root image from Pixabay

In modernity, we often forget how interconnected we are to each other, how there is no such thing as independent causality. The world begins and ends with the individuated experience.

I’m pretty sure that perspective isn’t getting us anywhere.

Wise Marcus, however, journaled about the importance of meditating…

... often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.38

… and he’s right in noting the inherent importance of that fact.

Why?

Because horrific injustices happen when we forget that truth. Because blood is shed when we forget that truth. Because we allow ignorance and selfishness and ego to reign when we forget that truth.

Sympatheia, children of Earth… Sympatheia.

(See y’all tomorrow)

Nolan link

9/11/2021 02:24:41 pm

Great blog, I enjoyed reading it.

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Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind.
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Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove. He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace.

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