12 Rules for Life (Full) ENGLISH

renovations without being demoralized, even crushed, by your internal critic’s lengthy and painful report of your inadequacies? ...

offer in return for your cooperation? Maybe if you did the dishes, we could go for coffee. You like espresso. How about an espre ...

with each day, your baseline of comparison gets a little higher, and that’s magic. That’s compound interest. Do that for three y ...

the middle of the game for a few long seconds, stops, and then beats his chest in the manner of stereotyped gorillas everywhere. ...

blind to everything else (and there’s a lot of everything else—so you’re very blind). And it has to be that way, because there i ...

impels you to that hideous conclusion, however, you might consider the following: life doesn’t have the problem. You do. At leas ...

Itself look like? What does “better” even mean? You don’t know. And it doesn’t matter that you don’t know, exactly, right away, ...

things—even that we need them. That’s human nature. We share the experience of hunger, loneliness, thirst, sexual desire, aggres ...

element. What good is a value system that does not provide a stable structure? What good is a value system that does not point t ...

You didn’t even know that you were blind. Some of our knowledge of our beliefs has been documented. We have been watching oursel ...

Old Testament God demanded—whatever that might have been and however you might have tried to hide from it—you and your children ...

is perhaps the greatest audacity and “sin against the spirit” which literary Europe has on its conscience. Who but the most naiv ...

take a risk. You decide that you will start treating Old Testament God, with all His terrible and oft-arbitrary-seeming power, a ...

Maybe there is a stack of paper on your desk, and you have been avoiding it. You won’t even really look at it, when you walk int ...

bad thing. Aim high. Set your sights on the betterment of Being. Align yourself, in your soul, with Truth and the Highest Good. ...

learned to aim low, and to be patient. You are discovering who you are, and what you want, and what you are willing to do. You a ...

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RULE 5 DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN DO ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU DISLIKE THEM ACTUALLY, IT’S NOT OK Recently, I watched a three-year-o ...

out of all the sliced bread, subjecting everyone to their juvenile tyranny, while mom and dad watched, embarrassed and bereft of ...