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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.

Jordan Peterson

Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSON

Emotion Yourself
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
JORDAN PETERSON

Inspirational Success Yourself
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
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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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
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.
JORDAN PETERSON

Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
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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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself

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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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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