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A Year of Contemplation

The Obstacle is The Way (Day 181)

6/30/2019

 
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Today’s topic is one of my all-time favorite Stoic concepts: the very thing preventing us from continuing on our path marks the path itself; that same thing becomes the path…

… if we allow it.

Our rich, skilled, and overactive egos will convince us to not engage with what’s before us in order to preserve itself. Engaging with the obstacle could bring about the things that challenge ego’s comfort: pain, in any form, and/or the necessity to change.

How we engage the obstacle isn’t important. What is important is that we do engage, not sit around idly, or make excuses.

If you feel challenged by whatever blocks your path, it’s because you’re triggered by what you feel from your encounter with the obstacle. If you feel less-than when faced with the mountain, it’s because the mountain is showing you your fears, your weaknesses, and places where you could train more. In short, your ego is uncomfortable when faced with challenges.

Please, don’t let your ego be your boss. Face it, conquer it…

… after all, it’s the obstacle.

(See y’all tomorrow, when we’ll begin talking about duty.)

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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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