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A Year of Contemplation

Awareness is Freedom (Day 63)

3/4/2019

 
Today’s theme brings to mind images of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: the more aware the hero became of truth and reality, the more “free” they became. 

If we take the externalized allegory from Plato and turn its lens of awareness within, toward our internal processes and motivations, we can see the deceptive nature of our egoic desires, the shadowy reality of selfishness. 

Even though this all that shadow and deception sounds nefarious, the “freedom” model doesn’t only apply to the obviously detrimental. No, not at all. Sometimes we’re trapped in a Virtue-shaped prison, unaware that we’re lying to ourselves… unaware that we’re weaponizing Virtues because we’re trapped in ego’s desire to be right… unaware that we’re ignoring moderation, and going overboard, causing self harm, because playing the martyr quietly strokes our ego like the cat of a super-villain. 

The more aware we are of the subtle, insidious ways that we get in our own way, the more free we can actually be…

… and after all, who would not want to be free if they saw “The Cave” for what it was? 

(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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