Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

You can re-establish your relationship with the creative spirit that makes what's good out of potential.

That's a rediscovery, that revelation of your own ignorance, your own bitter ignorance.

That's a re-contact with the ground of being itself.

That's why it strikes you so hard.

That's why it can be life-changing when you recognize your own insufficiency.

This is part of what prayer calls you to do all the time, to pray, to pray on what's

What do you pray if you're sensible?

What am I doing that's stupid?

Well, there's a source of inexhaustible wisdom precisely proportionate to your stupidity.

And you might say, why bother?

Well, we covered that already.

So you don't fall into a pit.

If you could do nothing but aim high and look within yourself for everything that stopped you from moving forward, and you did that full-heartedly, unreservedly, and you made that the leitmotif of your life, what would you be like in a year, in five years, in 10 years, in 20 years?

Would you be headed for sainthood itself?

Is that not something that...

is a possibility that resides within you?

You know perfectly well that there are times in your life where you took a turn for the better.

What if that was the pattern of your existence?

Nothing but the constant turn for the better.

And then you might also ask yourself, would there be any difference between living a life that was composed of nothing but constant turns for the better and existence in the kingdom of heaven itself?