The Most Secure Fortress (Day 266)

9/23/2019

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Therefore, the mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress - a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.48

Well, thank you, wise and venerable Marcus. You make it sound so simple. Liberate our minds from passions. Just like that, hmm?

I think we can only reside in that secure fortress if we have the diligence to build it.

Practice taking control over ourselves, in each moment.

Again, and again.

Before we know it, we’ll have that fortress.

(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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