Actors in a Play (Day 312)

11/8/2019

Image by David Mark from Pixabay

When an actor gets a role in a play, they don’t go off and say different lines, interact with other actors and the sets in any way that wasn’t prescribed in the script. They accept the boundaries and expectations of the role, no matter what their personal feelings are, and no matter their opinions of the playwright. The only real concern of the actor is to play the part well. How those actors are chosen for their role is out of their hands, and beyond their control. All they can do is be excellent within the fate of their role.

They accept the boundaries of their roles as long as they’re in those roles.

Whatever our “role” is today, accept that in each moment, it’s where we’re supposed to be…

… otherwise we wouldn’t have landed the role.

(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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