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A Year of Contemplation

Judgements Cause Disturbance (Day 100)

4/10/2019

 
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It isn’t events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgements about them.”
(Epictetus, Enchiridion, 5)

​On this day, the 100th of me doing this blog thing, we continue to examine April’s core topic of “unbiased thought”... and so, with that, let’s think of a thing: 

Liver.

Beef liver. Chicken livers. Y’all know what I’m talkin’ about, right? 

Foie Gras. Liver and onions. Fried chicken livers. Foie de Veau Lyonnaise. 

Liver. 

Liver just is. It’s just liver. Liver causes no ripples. 

It’s the opinions, judgements, and stances we take on liver that make it disturbing. 

Much like the innocent, minding-its-own-business liver, events in our lives “just are” and have no agenda before we attach one to them. Just like it’s us who make Outdwellers, it’s us who cause the disturbances we feel about otherwise neutral events. 

Thanks for going on that short, liver-filled ride with me and subjecting yourselves to your own opinions on liver… as well as for any disturbances that may have arisen. 

(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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