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A Year of Contemplation

A Simple Way to Measure Our Days (Day 349)

12/15/2019

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This is the mark of perfection of character - to spend each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, laziness, or any pretending.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.69

Perfection is impossible, as is sagacious enlightenment, but we hold “perfection” and “sagacity” and “enlightenment” as ideals for which we’re constantly aiming. However, even though they were unattainable, the ancient Stoics continued to pursue these impossible states of consciousness, these idealistic goals. Why?

Because today could be their last, and if they were “caught” not trying in each moment to be their best, they’d believe they’ve failed at life.

525,600 minutes. That’s a lot of opportunity to practice Memento Mori each year. That’s a lot of opportunity to measure our lives.

How are we measuring our days?

​(See y’all tomorrow)

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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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