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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.

Jordan Peterson

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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Choice Destiny Mystery Ourselves Potential Reality Transform World
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
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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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
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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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Death Deep Life Time Wisdom
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
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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Danger Life Truth Yourself
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 is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Better Protection Yourself
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
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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Life Philosophy Purpose
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.

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