There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
JORDAN PETERSONThus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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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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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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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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