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A Year of Contemplation

Where is Anything Better? (Day 208)

7/27/2019

 
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Throughout our lives, we are nearly always engaged in seeking that which makes us happy. We chase after wealth and money, success and fame, as well as love and companionship… because we truly believe these things will be what gets us to “happy”. Don’t get me wrong: wealth, success, and the love of another are good things. Very good things, in fact…

… but is there anything better?

Wealth and money can be lost through poor decisions or taken from you by the poor decisions of others. Success and fame, by their nature, are things that always stay outside our grasp because they’re constantly changing, morphing, and mutating. Once you get your hands on “success”, you’ll find it’s idealized form shifting through your fingers, then find that success looks very different… and your quest for it begins again, and again, and again. Finally, anything from another, including love, is something that’s completely outside our control, whether we like it or not.

So, there has to be something better, right?

Yes… and that something better is: Virtue.

How we behave and move through the world is exclusively up to us. The decisions and micro-choices we make in every moment help to frame and inform our Virtue practice… again, generating the “goodness” of Virtue is exclusively up to us. No one else. It cannot be taken from us, nor can it come from anywhere beyond ourselves. It’s like we become the singular, never-ending font of our own happiness…

… and where, I ask you, is there anything better than that?

(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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