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A Year of Contemplation

Think Before You Act (Day 45)

2/14/2019

 
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We’ve all wondered “How could I have been so stupid?” We’ve all said to ourselves “What was I thinking?”

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Know why?

Because in those moments that led up to these questions we weren’t thinking… well, I should say we think we were thinking, but we weren’t.

Aiming our minds on our reason and intelligence before springing into action assures that we engage our reason and intelligence. Otherwise, we’re acting on emotions, feelings, immediate physical sensations, or hormonal responses.

Those things aren’t inherently “bad”, but they combine with ego to appear wise, and when that’s all we’re listening to, we can’t make holistic, wise decisions.

For to be wise is only one thing - to fix our attention on our intelligence, which guides all things everywhere.”
​(Heraclitus, quoted in Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 9.1)

Emotions, hormones, and sensations inform our decisions and actions, but we cannot allow them to be the chief maker of decisions. 

It’d be like asking a child to make the daily choices for the family’s dinner. There would be a lot of spaghetti, or cake, or cheese-covered things, and while those things are great on occasion, eating like that every day is not WISE eating. 

Our work is to focus our minds on our inborn Wisdom and act from there. We can check the success of our work by the absence of questions like “What was I thinking?”

(See y’all tomorrow)
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1/21/2020 07:54:48 pm

It really won't hurt to just sit and stay still and just wait for better days to come. Did you really think that some people turn off their phones just to avoid others who might distract them? I guess there's no better way to explain this and words will never be enough. We all feel petrified about a lot of things lately and we sometimes just have no choice. The world is a big gag order full of humans who have no plans of even intending to understand. Now I am feeling sleepy and not making any sense.


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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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