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A Year of Contemplation

The Pleasure of Tuning Out the Negative (Day 331)

11/27/2019

 
How satisfying it is to dismiss and block out any upsetting or foreign impression, and immediately to have peace in all things.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.2

In the times of wise Marcus and his predecessors, there was no social media chatter to get these folx angry and annoyed. However, even though there was no electronic distractions, an ancient, perhaps slower-moving undisciplined mind could get distracted as easily as a faster-paced undisciplined mind of today. 

What would our days look like, especially with the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, if we practiced a cultivated ignorance when it came to facing the negative? I think it’d be fabulous! Here’s how I think it’d go: 

“That guy”: Blah blah blah *insert triggery ignorance here*
Us: Hmm, I don’t see why that’s *whatever this dipstick thinks it is*. Would you explain why you think it’s that way? I don’t get it. 
“That guy”: (after some bumbling and fumbling for words and explanations) Umm… uh… nevermind. 

Our “ignorance” causes one to look into their own negativity and actual ignorance, and what follows is peaceful, and serene. 

(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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