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.
JORDAN PETERSONWe 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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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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