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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.

Jordan Peterson

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
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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Existence Thinking Tolerance
To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Act Life Live Possible Value
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Greatness Reality Survive
It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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Happiness Success Yourself
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
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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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
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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Action Stop Strong Weakness Yourself
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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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Care Worth Yourself
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True

Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.

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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.

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