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A Year of Contemplation

Becoming an Expert in What Matters (Day 104)

4/14/2019

 
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Believe me, it’s better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain marker.”
(Seneca, On the Brevity of Life, 18.3b)

Let’s say that we were blessed enough to all have the kind of death where we’re surrounded by those we love, by those in whose lives we’ve made a difference, and all sorts of other people who were connected to us … let’s say we were in that space, looking into the faces of all these wonderful people, remembering all the times we shared together, all the adventures… 

… in this moment, what matters? 

Is it how many dead languages you could translate? 

Is it how many merit badges you got to sew on to your accomplishment-sash? 

Is it random sports trivia? Obscure, nonsensical anecdotes? 

Is it how virtue affected your daily life? 

Is it how love influenced all the decisions in your 20’s? 

Is it the stories of those around you, their accomplishments, and their great deeds? 

What matter? 

Train in that. 

(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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