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.
JORDAN PETERSONWe may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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