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.
JORDAN PETERSONOld age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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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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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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