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“When you ask why such terrible things happen in the world, the answer is quite simple. The answer is it’s because you’re not good enough. And, it’s because you don’t tell the truth. And you know it.”
““Risk your security. Face the unknown. Quit lying to yourself, and do what your heart truly tells you to do. You will be better for it, and so will the world.”
— Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (via the-rose-alchemist)
“The path to paradise is through hell… and if you don’t go there voluntarily you’ll go there by accident…”
— Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
“If you actually want something, you can have it. The question then is what do you mean by actually want? And the answer is, you reorient your life in every possible way to make the probability that that will occur as certain as possible. And that’s a sacrificial idea right? It’s like, you don’t get everything, obviously… But maybe you can have what you need, and maybe all you have to do to get it is ask; but asking isn’t a whim, or today’s wish. You have to be deadly serious about it”
— Jordan Peterson
“It seems to me that we’re at a kind of crossroads. I don’t know exactly why, you always meet the devil at the crossroads by the way, and the reason for that is because every crossroad is a choice, and it’s always a choice between good and evil. We’re at a crossroads and I don’t know why, I guess it’s because the terrible 20th century has spent its energy and now we have something new in the aftermath. It’s time for everyone to pick up the chaotic pieces and to carry them voluntarily and to make their way through the world, and to try to speak their truth, and to see what happens - it will heal your self, it will heal your body, and it will heal your soul, it’ll heal your family, it’ll heal the nation - that’s what truth does and how could it be any other way? Reality is the truth! And how are you going to adapt to it without using the truth? Well the problem is reality is the terrible truth but it’s certainly possible that the terrible truth is its own medicine.”
“You can make peace, because they’re you, man. They’re you. They’re a huge part of your experience; you have to treat that person as if they are you. And it isn’t like ‘well i’m gunna treat you well because you’re me’, because people don’t treat themselves very well often, it’s way more complicated than that. You just, you don’t wanna defeat your wife, man, because then you live with a defeated wife. And if you think she isn’t gunna take revenge on you then you’re not very bright. So you wanna listen to what she has to say, and you wanna listen to her problems and you wanna help her solve them because, she’s you. You wanna do the same with your kids. You wanna do the same with people around you if you can do it.”
“You wanna make your goals large enough so that they challenge you, but small enough so that you have a reasonable probability of succeeding at them on a day to day basis. You’ve got to be ambitious enough in your goal so that you’re pursuing something truly meaningful and worthwhile.”
— Jordan Peterson, September Patreon Q & A
So then you ask yourself, and this is a dead serious question: So imagine that people are exploring their moral domain, whose reality is blatantly obvious but difficult to formalise let’s say. We’re exploring the nature of the moral realm, tentatively, and we develop more powerful and more integrated theories as we progress. You end up with a unified god, so it’s a monotheism, there’s a god within. Then the question is: Well what exactly is that god within? Does it correspond to something that’s real, or is it just a figure of the imagination? But then you say well if it’s just a figure of the imagination, what exactly is the imagination?
I think partly, Christianity insists that this integrated god figure, also had a real existence. That’s how Christianity tries to solve this particular problem. And people like C.C Lewis and Jung to some degree as well, would say well, once in history, someone acted out that unified god so completely, that something happened. That’s the proposition. Okay well that’s the limit of the proposition, and then the question is: How real is this moral striving? It’s real enough so you torture yourself when you don’t engage in it properly. It’s real enough so you can’t avoid its call. It’s real enough so that you can make moral errors that are so severe that you can doubt the validity of your own existence. It’s real enough for that.
This is an honest question, it’s like… I certainly see how much good is done when people are good and how much evil is done when they’re evil. —Jordan Peterson, An Atheist in the Realm of Myth | Stephen Fry - Jordan B Peterson Podcast - S4 E22
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