Existence and limitation are inseparably linked in life narratives.

Evidence

If you are already everything, everywhere, always, there is nowhere to go and nothing to be. Everything that could be already is, and everything that could happen already has. And it is for this reason, so the story goes, that God created man. No limitation, no story. No story, no Being. That idea has helped me deal with the terrible fragility of Being. It helped my client, too. I don’t want to overstate the significance of this. I don’t want to claim that this somehow makes it all OK. She still faced the cancer afflicting her husband, just as I still faced my daughter’s terrible illness. But there’s something to be said for recognizing that existence and limitation are inextricably linked. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 980

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 980
• XREF: connects to: Imagining the absent is the defining human capacity behind story — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 24; Life is simultaneously boundless continuity and boundary-determined ego — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 811; Birth and death are immanent extensions of life itself. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 826 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension #corroborates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837
• Imagining the absent is the defining human capacity behind story #expands (0.55) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 24