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.
JORDAN PETERSONMuch of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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