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A Year of Contemplation

On Being Invincible (Day 35)

2/4/2019

 
When I read the title of today’s contemplations, my mind filled with images of Superman conducting an interview, fielding questions “on being invincible”, and what it’s like to move through the world with the kind of confidence that comes with that invincibility.

We mere mortals; however, are not the children of Krypton, filled with the power of this solar system’s yellow sun. We’re not Kryptonians. We’re Earthlings. More specifically, human beings...

… and as such, are not invincible. Well, not like Kal-El, at least.

Invincibility, according to the topical Google search I did for “define invincible”, means “too powerful to be defeated or overcome”.

Short of having bulletproof skin or phenomenal strength, we quotidian folx still have the ability to cultivate and experience invincibility. Really. We do.

How? By developing an adamantine resolve in training our minds and emotions so we have control over them, not they over us. What we’re developing, according to the ancient Stoics, is prohairesis, or “reasoned choice”.

Epictetus says that those who are truly invincible, “... cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.” (Discourses, 1.18.21)

Poise, not pose. Patience, not passivity.

Invincibility, not illusion.

(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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