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A Year of Contemplation

What Comes to Us All (Day 352)

12/18/2019

 
Both Alexander the Great and his mule-keeper were both brought to the same place by death - they were either received into the all-generative reason, or scattered among the atoms.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.24

​Aside from death, are there any egalitarian experiences left? I mean, in a time when there is such passion and ferocity spent toward identity and self, the occurrences of polarizing division, perceived difference, and personal or collective elitism seem more like the norm instead of the exception to the rule. Collectively, we seem to yearn to be different and special and unique… 

… which we are. And yet, who gives a shit? 

All the things that make each of us special, and unique, and different amount to nothing at the end of life. We all have the same end to our story. Death: the state in which no one is better or worse. Remembering this helps to keep one on the middle road, the path of equanimity, neither falling into the ego trap of feeling superior because of one’s uniqueness, or consequently,  feeling inferior because of it. 

Again, we all have the same end to our story. 

(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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