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The Necessity of Virtue

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Nature of Your Being Justifies Itself

If you're doing something that is intrinsically meaningful, then the sense of passing time disappears. Nityo said, people betray themselves for the sake of their good name all the time. You can feel this. It seems to centre in your solar plexus. When you say something or do something that is not virtuous, then you'll disintegrate,. Then you're weak, and you feel that. And then you'll cover it up with a bunch of rattling arguments - trying to convince yourself and other people that what you were doing was actually ok. That's an alternative exercise, pay attention and figure out when absolutely your being does not justify itself.

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