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.
JORDAN PETERSONConsciousness 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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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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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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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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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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