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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.

Jordan Peterson

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.
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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
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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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
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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Gratitude History Reason World Yourself
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
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
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
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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Change Greatness World

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