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A Year of Contemplation

Four Habits of the Stoic Mind (Day 322)

11/18/2019

 
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Our rational nature moves freely forward in its impressions when it: 
accepts nothing false or uncertain; 
directs its impulses only to acts for the common good; 
limits its desires and aversions only to what’s in its own power; 
embraces everything nature assigns it.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.7

​How many times do we boil down “what is” into small, bullet-pointed lists? Look at what’s important and make notes to ourselves with regard to what matters, right? I do…

… and it would seem that wise Marcus did, too! 

Throughout his journals he had many small lists of good practices, and habits that he’d hoped to make a part of his life. The above four can be reinterpreted in modern vernacular as: 

1 - Accept only what is true
2 - Work for the common good
3 - Match our needs and wants with what is in our control
4 - Embrace what nature has in store for us 

(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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