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The Call to Abraham

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The World Moves Away From You if You Stand Still

You couldn't see paradise if it was right in front of you. But you might get a glimmer of it, so you move towards it and you grow. And then the next time you open your eyes, you see a little bit more clearly. The thing that's so cool is that each of those zags and zigs is a catastrophe. I hit a wall, my God. And then I had to die a little bit. And I barely got back up. It's a phoenix transformation at each turn. You cannot stand still. There's no stasis. There's only backwards. If you're not moving backwards, back forwards, then you're moving backwards.

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