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A Year of Contemplation

Expect to Change Your Opinions (Day 97)

4/7/2019

 
We hold our opinions to be dear, and based on those treasured opinions, we plan, and plan, and plan. Scheming and plotting, overthinking in hopes that our staunch opinions will grant us the ability to head off at the pass every possibility that could oppose our plans. Truth is that more often than not, all those plans we make are based off of opinions that are utterly wrong. 

There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstances there can be no happiness.”
​(Epictetus, Discourses, 3.14.8)

​We cleave to the idea that we’ll have some sort of power to change things beyond ourselves because we believe ourselves to wise beyond our actual wisdom, and arrogance clouds the necessity for humility. That’s why those opinions are more often than not wrong… 

… and as such, we should expect to be required to change them.

Like we’ve mentioned here before, if we already think we’re awesome, we don’t move toward excellence. If we already think we’re wise, we don’t pursue wisdom… we think we’ve already got it. 

That, dear readers, is a opinion we all need to change. 

(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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