The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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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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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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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 may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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