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A Year of Contemplation

We Have But One Obligation (Day 151)

5/31/2019

 
What is your vocation? To be a good person.”
 - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 11.5

I’m sure in 2019 most of us have heard the phrase, “You had ONE job!” used somewhere in the overculture, right? 

Well, according the Stoics, we do actually only have one job, and that’s to be a good person. The author of The Daily Stoic even goes so far as to name this job an obligation. Goodness, he must have NO idea the gargantuan volume of pagans who are utterly triggered by the very thought of being obligated to do anything beyond fulfilling their own desires. GASP!

Being a good person is a very long, continuous, and dedicated process of DOING… it’s not a singular moment. It’s not like, POOF! (Pouf! for the Witch Hazel fans out there. You know who you are.) Think smoldering fuse, and not the explosion. 

The challenge is in remembering not to muddle up the process with ego’s insidious machinations of telling us our job is something other than being a good person. 

“You had ONE job!” 

Play that sound bite in your head the next time you think your job is inventing excuses for NOT doing your job. 

(See y’all tomorrow - when we begin the month of Problem Solving)

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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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