Want Nothing = Have Everything (Day 241)

8/29/2019

Image Credit: Wm. E. Ashton, II

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”
Seneca, Moral Letters, 123.3

When we value what we already have, it’s easy to curb our egoic desire to have more and more…

… AND today is the 14th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall just east of my hometown, New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as the surrounding Gulf Coast area.

Today, I’m going to sit with grief, the absurdity of life, and remember the absolute differences between “want” and “need”.

(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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