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A Year of Contemplation

It's not the Thing, it's What We Make of it (Day 315)

11/11/2019

 
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When you are distressed by an external thing, it’s not the thing itself that troubles you, but only your judgement of it. A you can wipe this out at a moment’s notice.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.47

There’s not much more I can say about this today. Really, it’s pretty straight-forward. Wise Marcus is right on the money… it’s not “the thing”, but instead, our judgements on “the thing”. 

While I don’t have more to say about how acceptance is what empowers us to realize this truth, and to act upon it once realized, I do, however, have an example. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

He spent the majority of his early years preparing for the presidency by holding increasingly more influential positions in politics. Just before turning forty, he was diagnosed with polio, changing his life forever and potentially ending his career. 

Polio was “the thing”. 

What FDR made of that “thing” was a presidency that could be categorized as one of America’s greatest political triumphs. 

What could we be making out of the things that trouble us, that could derail our plans, that steal our health? FDR made a presidency. 

(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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