Trust.


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 Trust





The word, Trust, is a fairly small and almost insignificant word and yet it is a word so full of import that it can never be considered to be meaningless.

We put our trust on the line many times during the course of a day. When we walk out of the door and along a busy road, we put our trust in the drivers of cars that they will not veer onto the pavement and you will be safe. When we eat a meal, we put our trust in the cook or chef who has prepared it.

If we consider another person to be a friend or one, we say we hold in love we put our lives into their hands trusting that they will respond to us in the same way as we do them.

Without this trust, there is very little. There can be no happy contentment when trust is lost. We are left only with fear. There can be no such thing as security without trust when trust is lost, we feel anxious.

The greatest trust, however, is the trust we put in ourselves. At the beginning of any new creative adventure, we put our trust in our own ability to complete what we are about to begin. It is wise then before commencing to gather our thoughts and ideas and to calm our inner being and renew the trust we have in our own ability and wisdom. 

Then in trust, you will begin, and you will act, and you will do what feels right. Then at the completion of the project in this trust, you will know that no matter what the outcome is that you will have given your very best.

You will find a peace and a serenity in this knowledge and even if you feel there was something that could have been done a little better you will still have the trust to begin something new. 

Lao Tzu says, "Open your mind to the Tao, then trust yourself and your responses. When you do this everything else will fall into place."

This is the way of trust, the way of the Tao.

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