>>24701571
Or for a more practical, less theoretical look.

>The foul fiend whispered praise into the heart of an ascetic who was striving for blessed humility,
but by divine inspiration he contrived to conquer the guile of the spirits by a pious ruse. He rose and
wrote on the wall of his cell the names of the highest virtues in order, that is: perfect love, angelic
humility, pure prayer, inviolable chastity and others like these. And so when thoughts of vainglory
began to praise him, he said to them: ‘Let us go and be judged.’ Then, going to the wall, he read the
names and cried to himself: ‘When you possess all these, then you will know how far you still are from
God!’


As Saint Maximus says in the Centuries on Love:

>Nothing created by God is evil. It is not food that is evil but gluttony, not the begetting of children but unchastity, not material things but avarice, not glory but vainglory. It is only the misuse of things that is evil, not the things themselves.

Or as Saint Isaac of Nineveh puts it in the Ascetical Homilies:

The world" is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of honor which gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothes and vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancor and resentment, and physical fear.

Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead…. Someone has said of the Saints that while alive they were dead; for though living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are dead to it.

Or as Origen tells us in On Prayer:

>Good is one; many are the base. Truth is one; many are the false. True righteousness is one; many are the states
that act it as a part. God’s wisdom is one; many are the wisdoms of this age and of the rulers of this age which come to nought. The word of God is one, but many are the words alien to God.

>>24568935
Pic related.

>>24568945
Good pick.

>>24570091

Also a great pick. I am currently reading Christ the Eternal Tao.

>>24521975
I mean, Nietzsche was an incel, and did a lot of very beta cuck shit in his life that was totally at odds with his power fantasy writing. He was like an IRL Dostoevsky character. And then he went insane and spent his last years shitting himself. So, it's not like Peterson is different in that aspect.

Should people maybe take advice from those widely regarded as sages and saints by those around them? Sure. But those people all tend to say shit people don't want to hear like:
>Not every desire you have is good and freedom isn't just getting to do whatever it is you just so happen to want, but rather knowing what is truly best and learning to love it for that reason
>You must train yourself in the virtues
>Humility is crucial, don't bask in your grindset mindset or superiority because the more you advance the more you will realize this is a lie and an idol
>Honors, wealth, sex, status, etc. are not what is most choiceworthy
>Virtue is hard work and ascetic labors will be required
>You can flourish in the wilderness with nothing once you have attained virtue and theoria, which also makes you free to do the right thing, even onto martyrdom
>Dwell on your mortality and death often
>Knowledge, theoria, gnosis, these only come with long practice and humility, not some killer argument we can give you to own people with
Etc.