People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
JORDAN PETERSONConsult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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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 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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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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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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