Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONBut 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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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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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