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A Year of Contemplation

Reject Tantalizing Gifts (Day 102)

4/12/2019

 
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Not every gift is a Trojan Horse. Truthfully, it’s a rare gift that’s sole purpose of being given is to serve as a container, metaphorical or otherwise, to hide ill intentions. 

Here, though, we’re not talking about Trojan Horses. We’re talking about any gift that excites us to the point of losing our good senses. We’re talking about gifts that are nigh-irresistible. You know what I’m talking about… think of them… 

Ah, yes… the magnetic pull of the new & improved, the shiny & enticing. We can viscerally feel them tugging at our desires, pulling at our hunger, our lust for the glistening and gleaming. 

Gross. 

Let's stop it. Just stop it. 

Atreus: Who would reject the flood of fortune’s gifts?
Thyestes: Anyone who has experienced how easily they flow back.”
(Seneca, Thyestes, 536)

​Remember, happiness isn’t about getting what we want. It’s about wanting what we’ve got. 

The first is all about ego and ourselves. The latter is about right-relationship, and NOT us. 

In all this, I keep asking myself: where does Hospitality factor in to all this? 

Perhaps, the answer will be found on Moderation’s road? 

Our mantra: “No, thank you” as we continue our journey. 

(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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