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A Year of Contemplation

The Present is All We Possess (Day 74)

3/15/2019

 
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Whether Bil Keane said it, or Master Oogway, it’s still the same truth: the real gift is in the present. 

I mean, what is REAL, other than the present? We can only have what’s real, right? And all that IS real can only be found in the present, yes? 

Were you to live three thousand years, or even a countless multiple of that, keep in mind that no one ever loses a life other than the one they are living, and no one ever lives a life other than the one they are losing. The longest and the shortest life, then, amount to the same, for the present moment lasts the same for all, and is all anyone possesses. No one can lose either the past or the future, for how can someone be deprived of what’s not theirs?”
​(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2.14)

​The past only exists in our minds, our memories, and our history. 

The future only exists in our minds, our fantasies, and our imagination. 

To practice awareness is to be in the now. To be in the now is to live in the only moment that we have any agency. To have agency IS to live. 

Live. 

(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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