Building Trust
'When I realize that as a small child I was not able to build trust, and as a result could not build a sufficient amount of self-confidence, I see that when I criticize others harshly, I do this because I am feeling insecure.'
There is probably no greater and more expansive feeling than trust. Trusting others at a high level is like living in paradise. On the other hand, mistrusting others at a high level equals living in hell.
Trusting others can be learnt by trusting them.
It
begins with your bag on the restaurant table when you go to the restroom,
and it ends with letting your little girl spend the night with an adult male
friend she just got to know and that she fell in love with.
It means to
trust not only yourself, but equally encompass in your trust the trust of
others. That your little girl trusts this man means something for you as
well. If it doesn't, you do not really respect your daughter and rather tend
to control her life by rigid patterns that suffocate her in the long run.
Trusting the world means trusting more and more individuals, including yourself. You cannot trust half-heartedly. You trust or you trust not.
Trusting Yourself
- your intuition
- your foreknowledge
- your sixth sense
- your inner wisdom
Trusting Others
- their basic goodness
- their soul-wisdom
- their good intentions
- their similar needs
Trusting Life
- its deep intelligence
- its growth pattern
- its full support
- its invisible hands