Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
JORDAN PETERSONDreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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