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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.

Jordan Peterson

Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
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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Choice Destiny Mystery Ourselves Potential Reality Transform World
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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Existence Thinking Tolerance
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Character Lie True Weakness Worth Yourself
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
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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Gratitude History Reason World Yourself
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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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Greatness Reality Survive
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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Act Failure God Necessary Preparation Sin
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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Children Family Necessary Problem Rich
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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Death Different Life Right
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
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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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself

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