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A Year of Contemplation

All is Fluid (Day 313)

11/9/2019

 
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The universe is change. Life is opinion.” 
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.3.4b

​Nothing is constant, except for change. We can count on things changing; remaining the same, untouched by time, is simply not an option for those of us being realistic. Unwavering consistency, therefore, is an illusion. 

Each moment how many little (or not so little) changes and transitions happen within our own bodies? Hundreds? Thousands? Hairs fall out, skin cells die and are sloughed off, fresh memories replace the ones that once occupied spaces of prominence in our minds. There are some Buddhists that believe that even if there were no other changes besides the thousands of micro changes our physical bodies experience, we’re not the same person we were a second ago. 

The only thing that keeps us (or someone else) constant is the ego-mind. The ego wants things to stay constant because consistency brings ease and comfort… the very things the ego-mind desires. The ego-mind cannot accept the universal truth of change because there’s nothing about an ever-changing reality that one can grasp on to. Change is something we must learn to accept, because if we don’t, we’ll just be stuck thinking we’re someone we’re not. We’ll delude ourselves into believing we’re the same person we were a second ago. We’ll delude ourselves that others are the same person they were the last time we saw them, or from a decade ago, or from when we were in high school together, etc. etc. etc. 

Universally speaking, change is the only thing we can count on. 

Accept it. 

(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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