It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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So, 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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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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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.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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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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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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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