Always place your becoming above your current being.
JORDAN PETERSONSo, 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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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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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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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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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