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.
JORDAN PETERSONTreat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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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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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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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.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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