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A Year of Contemplation

Your Career is NOT a Life Sentence (Day 212)

7/31/2019

 
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How disgraceful is the lawyer whose dying breath passes while at court, at an advanced age, pleading for unknown litigants and still seeking the approval of ignorant spectators.”
​Seneca, On the Brevity of Life, 20.2

We are not our careers. If we over-identify with our careers and our work, we become convinced that we’re invulnerable to the effects of aging and immune to the reality of life. We are no longer a person who is aging and living life, but instead we become a physical manifestation of a career.

Is there so little meaning in life that we need to hide deep within our careers until our cold, dead bodies are put to pyre? Is there so much fear in us that we can’t simply do our part for our time then move out of the way for others to do their part in their time?

Career isn’t a life sentence, but without mindfulness, it's easy for it to become one. Our duty isn’t to our careers. Our duty is to life and one another.

May we all thrive in duty’s embrace!

(See y’all tomorrow… for a “pragmatic” August)

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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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