'Trust' Articles
Know and trust. Know yourself. Not ideas about yourself, not prejudices, not your conditioning. There is something there, and it’s bigger than us. We are a part of it, and whether you believe it or not, that something guides you as much as it guides me.
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” Benjamin Spock (American Pediatrician and Author, 1903-1998)
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” Golda Meir (Israeli Founder and Prime Minister. 1898-1978)
“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason” Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
Who Can We Trust?
Who can we trust? Your self when you know yourself. The problem is mostly people don’t know themselves. They know an idea of self. A role among other things and a prejudice, a judgement. We only have ideas of others, so is there no trust in others? For the most part. “Trust no one” is commonly seen as secular wisdom, and what does that get us? Anything gained? You can trust your mind? Mind as a product of nature. The mind is like a snake. Is a snake really any form of betrayer? The snake is a snake. You can… Seek More
Give Place to Truth
Trust isn’t foolishness. Trust isn’t being a martyr or a sucker. Those come about when you don’t trust. When you perceive and then rationalize; “Well, maybe I’m wrong“, “Well, maybe they have changed“. Oh, the list of rationalizations is endless. If you trust you give place to the truth. You allow it to show itself rather than trying to get it. You can’t get truth. When truth becomes an object of getting, you lose sight of it. People believe the story in their head as an absolute truth? In trying to get truth you will get experience of what you… Seek More
Trouble With Thought
What we realize when we really tackle this subject of the brain, of thinking, is that we weren’t really paying attention. So we get panicky, we say “Well if my thoughts can be wrong, then how can I know?”. Because to trust we need to know, and we aren’t wrong. We do need to know. Don’t know = don’t trust. Not all thoughts are ‘wrong’, and there are shades of continuity. All truths are ‘aha’ thoughts. The truth becomes evident in a process of realization. It happens despite thought, but your focus did matter. I don’t say all thought is… Seek More
Know Yourself
It’s quite popular to doubt, to distrust people. Supposedly you are being shrewd and intelligent if you trust no one. Anyone know any paranoiacs who are genuinely wise? Fearful geniuses? Anyone changing the world by running away from it or doubting themselves? And yet, it’s cool to subscribe to trust no one right now. Even in the political arena in the United States, basically the government is taking a trust no one stance or did under Bush. Did this make us wildly prosperous? We have been trained by our parents to trust no one for fear of being in danger,… Seek More
Distrust Distrust
Is there ever a time not to trust? When you have to ask if you should trust, then distrust the distrust. In my area there is terrible violence with gangs. I don’t want to be paranoid. Trust they will act on what they say. Distrust doesn’t serve. Really distrust is the force that keeps us stuck in our heads, believing the illusion that I am such and such. I am Christian or I am Republican, and anyone who’s not like me isn’t to be trusted. What happens when those ideas are challenged? Trust doesn’t challenge, it’s the basis of realization.… Seek More
In Trust, Act
Looking back for my future. Looking forward it’s past. The only time I can love you is in the now. Not a race. Hey, wrote a poem. Yes, that’s the truth. If right now I just cannot accept my now, I can take radical action. Nothing is truly circumstantial, but things are balanced. You choose radical change, and you don’t change just one thing. That’s not possible. Right now, I could choose to arbitrarily leave this event, and people do. It has an impact. What they read or what they saw was part of what they didn’t read and didn’t see.… Seek More
