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A Year of Contemplation

You’re Going to be OK (Day 333)

11/29/2019

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Don’t lament this, and don’t get agitated.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.43

When things don’t go according to plan, it’s very easy to fall into hopelessness, losing all perspective and becoming blind to options, or regretting having done some Premeditatio Malorum prior. Self-pity rules the day, and we become impotent to act.

So what?

Being in the headspace of hopelessness comes from having hope. Hoping invests our inner resources in a non-existent future, built only on assumptions, fantasies, and wishes. We DO NOT know the future, so to invest in it is foolish, perhaps even dangerous. The future could hold more drama, more troubles, and more failures… or it could hold liberation, success, and happiness. In any case, we don’t know. “Good” or “bad” doesn’t matter.

Invest in the present, not the past or future. The present is the only SURE bet…

… and the only place in times that holds the reality of “being OK”.

(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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