People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
JORDAN PETERSONTreat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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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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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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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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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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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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