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A Year of Contemplation

Circle of Control (Day 13)

1/13/2019

 
Good heavens. Again? Control, control, control.

I’ve previously told congregants that, “it’s all about relationships”. Maybe, it’s really all about control?

Well, it kinda is.

Here’s why:

Like in the movie, The Matrix, all that is “real” passes through the engine of our minds. No experience, person, feeling, or anything, really, is beyond the reach of our minds. Judgements, and opinions originate there. Everything.

So, if Mind is the one thing that is touched by everything, then the only inhabitant of the “Circle of Control” is… (wait for it)...

MIND.

Meaning, the one thing in which we have to learn to be in right-relationship with is our minds.

From there, it all begins… and ends. Alpha and Omega. First and Last. Only.

OK, hang on, you might be saying. Is it not a more complex process to achieve the ever-elusive clarity? This can’t be it, right?

​Wrong. That’s all there is. Mind.

For me, there’s something very comforting about this. Why? Because that means I’ve only got one thing to remember to practice: disciplining my mind by intaking reality, and outputting humility.

Easy, right? ;)

We have one job. ONE job.

Perform it with excellence.

(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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