The first: limit the rules. The second: Use the least force necessary to enforce those rules. - Jordan Peterson

The eternal dragon is always giving our fallen-down castles a rough time—always.

It took me decades to understand what that means (to understand even part of what that means). It’s this: once you become consciously aware that you, yourself, are vulnerable, you understand the nature of human vulnerability, in general. You understand what it’s like to be fearful, and angry, and resentful, and bitter. You understand what pain means. And once you truly understand such feelings in yourself, and how they’re produced, you understand how to produce them in others. It is in this manner that the self-conscious beings that we are become voluntarily and exquisitely capable of tormenting others (and ourselves, of course —

If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.