Did that Make you Feel Better? (Day 39)

2/8/2019

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Passions and Emotions… the theme for February. Big feels. High highs. Low lows.

When we’re losing it, the question to ask ourselves, or anyone for that matter, is this: are our tantrums, breaking things, and being cruel changing how we feel in a healing way?… asking ourselves, “Did that make you feel better” will boot us right out of our egoic emotionality and back into the present moment.

But, are these outbursting emotions inherently “bad”?

No, and for no other reason other than good/bad and yes/no are SO binary it makes my soul hurt.

Setting my soul aside and moving on: processing intense emotions WITHOUT EGO is the goal…

,,, but that begs the question: Can we have intense emotional outbursts without ego?

(See y’all tomorrow)

Robert

2/8/2019 10:02:20 am

Does the sun shine without fuel? 😂

Rev. William

2/8/2019 11:44:22 am

EXACTLY! But hey, Naropoids have a distinct advantage in answering my rhetorical questions. ;) #GoBodhiCheetahs!!!

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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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