You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
JORDAN PETERSONWhen 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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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.
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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 cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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