You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
JORDAN PETERSONTruth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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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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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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