Prepared and Active (Day 169)

6/18/2019

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Let Fate find us prepared and active. Here is the great soul - the one who surrenders to Fate. The opposite is the weak and degenerate one, who struggles with and has a poor regard for the order of the world,
and seeks to correct the faults of the gods rather than their own.”
Seneca, Moral Letters, 107.12

Seneca said it best, really. Are you ready for today? How will Fate find you? Will you regret, and wish that you’d have done differently in the past?

Wishing to go back in time is nothing but a waste of yours, and that wishing does nothing but increase desire to mourn, and decrease desire to get things done.

The way of the Cosmos is what it is. You cannot remake the universe. Working within what’s there is a necessity.

So, prepare… and get to it.

(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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