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 PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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 don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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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.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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