That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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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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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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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 is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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