Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONIn Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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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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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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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 may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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