In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
JORDAN PETERSONTrue thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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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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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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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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