On Being Remembered (Day 362)

12/28/2019

Everything lasts for a day, the one who remembers and the remembered.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.35

If our actions are motivated because we want to be remembered, then our egos have won, and we miss the opportunity to live in the present.

When we’re motivated to simply do good in the world, without thought to being remembered, we can truly live in the present…

… the very place where our best is needed.

The best we can count on is to be remembered for a day. The rest of those days, and the fantastic story surrounding those days, we just have to release. Let them go.

Take comfort in the good works in front of us in each moment for the fantasy of being remembered is a waste of our time, and only serves our ego… and none of that will make any difference when we’re dead.

(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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