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.
JORDAN PETERSONThere’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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