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.
JORDAN PETERSONThat which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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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 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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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