Worthlessness is the default condition.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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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 betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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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 the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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