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A Year of Contemplation

What is in Keeping with your Character? (Day 120)

4/30/2019

 
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​Today is the last day of the first third of the year’s training. It officially ends the “Discipline of Perception” section of the work. These last four months we’ve been exploring what it takes to have a disciplined mind, and according to Holiday we need to remain mindful of our unbiased thoughts, general awareness, passions, emotions, and overall clarity of perspective. 

One of the most important take-aways from this part of the work is this: there is no one “rational” or “good”. Each interpretation in the Multiplicity of Truth© is dependent on the character of the interpreter. We each question the script, no matter if the scriptwriter is society, time, tradition, family, or morals… for if we don’t, we lose our character and become a caricature. 

So, how do we develop our character? Education, and exposure. Through these two things, we train our preconceived notions and their relationship with natural harmony. Through this process we learn to stop relying on exclusively our own egoic estimate of nature, on our own egoic value of external things. Education and exposure develop character… a solvent against ego. 

With developed character we can manage to avoid toxic relationships, temptations, seduction, and fair-weather friends. 

(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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