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A Year of Contemplation

Our Well-Being Lies in Our Actions (Day 134)

5/14/2019

 
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​SUPER funny that today’s topic is “well-being”. 

Here’s why: Rev. Bee and I started a class yesterday entitled “Existential Well-Being Counseling”, and in one of my first posts to the class, I argued that only embracing the idea of “well-being” will do nothing but further develop and strengthen one’s ego. To me, well-being is being (more like DOIN) well. The ACT of being, in other words. 

Those obsessed with glory attach their well-being to the regard of others, those who love pleasure tie it to feelings, but the one with true understanding seeks it only in their own actions... Think on the character of the people one wishes to please, the possessions one means to gain, and the tactics one employs to such ends. How quickly time erases such things, and how many will yet be wiped away.”
(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.51.59)

​Love your performance and performing… not the reviews. The goal isn’t to WIN, but instead, to show up, and give our best, most authentic performance possible. 

Focus on our response to what happens… not on what happens. 

(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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