12 Rules for Life (Full) ENGLISH

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RULE 7 PURSUE WHAT IS MEANINGFUL (NOT WHAT IS EXPEDIENT) GET WHILE THE GETTING’S GOOD Life is suffering. That’s clear. There is ...

will pass away like the traces of a cloud, and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun and overcome by its ...

behaviour became represented in our stories. But we didn’t and still don’t understand what it all means. The Biblical narrative ...

“Yeah, but I’d rather be on a beach in Mexico with my girlfriend,” while they’re doing it. Prosaically, such sacrifice—work—is d ...

Our ancestors acted out a drama, a fiction: they personified the force that governs fate as a spirit that can be bargained with, ...

God, and they do so, with altar and proper ritual. But things get complicated. Abel’s offerings please God, but Cain’s do not. A ...

next (“I can’t possibly eat all of this mammoth, but I can’t store the rest for too long, either. Maybe I should feed some to ot ...

of delay and exchange begin to emerge, slowly and painfully. Then they become represented, in metaphorical abstraction, as ritua ...

God’s going further necessary? Why does He—why does life—impose such demands? We’ll start our analysis with a truism, stark, sel ...

It’s a close race between child and self. The sacrifice of the mother, offering her child to the world, is exemplified profoundl ...

Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher. After a lifetime of seeking the truth and educating his countrymen, Socrates faced a tr ...

Instead, he turned the tables, addressing his judges in a manner that makes the reader understand precisely why the town council ...

and death, and wish to protect ourselves for as long as possible. Once we can see the future, we must prepare for it, or live in ...

no uncertain terms, that the fault is all with Cain—and worse: that Cain has knowingly and creatively dallied with sin,^132 and ...

chapters of Genesis (and in the vast tradition that surrounds them) as a cataclysm of cosmic magnitude. Conscious human malevole ...

non-trivial and unlikely accomplishment—but he could not overcome human evil. For this reason, Abel is archetypally incomplete. ...

Cain turns to Evil to obtain what Good denied him, and he does it voluntarily, self-consciously and with malice aforethought. Ch ...

statement should give everyone who encounters it pause. There was no possibility for movement upward, in that great psychiatrist ...