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A Year of Contemplation

Follow the Logos (Day 334)

11/30/2019

 
The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act - they are at once both cheerful and self-composed.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 10.12b

​The ancient Stoics believed the world had a logical, natural, reasonable ‘force’ that helped the world and the cosmos unfold into fruition: Logos. It really wasn’t a helpful force, per se, as logos didn’t have an agenda. It was seen as more of an impelling force than as a compelling force. I believe the benefits logos could bestow comes from tuning into it, not from manipulating it. 

According to Holiday (The Daily Stoic, p.355) there’s a helpful analogy to understand the concept of logos: 

Logos is like a moving cart, or wagon, and we are like a dog leashed to that wagon. Where the cart is going will ultimately determine where we will have to go; however, depending on the length of the leash, we could have enough room to explore our surrounding, even linger over some for a short time. However, if we get lost in our egoic explorations, we’ll be unwillingly drug along once the logos-wagon reaches the end of our leash. But, if we’re mindful of the direction and pace of logos, we can choose to accept both the fate of the Cosmos, AND our own level of independence within that fate. 

Honestly, it really doesn’t matter if we obediently go along with the cart, or fight it every step of the way… because the Cosmos is going to keep chugging along where we go along with it, or not. 

This, children of Earth, is one core reason we engage in the practice of acceptance. 

(See y’all tomorrow - for the beginning of the last month of our time together: December - the month of contemplating our own mortality.)

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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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