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.
JORDAN PETERSONThe 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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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