You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
JORDAN PETERSONWhat you aim at determines what you see.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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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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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.
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