Sublime

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

Au contact de la Seberg, il m'arrive de retrouver un peu de cette candeur qu'il faut pour gagner en sachant perdre. J'entends par là qu'il faut continuer à faire confiance aux hommes, parce qu'il importe moins d'être déçu, trahi et moqué par eux que de continuer à croire en eux et à leur faire confiance. Il est moins important de laisser pendant de

trusting that you are on the right path, and not being in doubt by following the myriad footpaths of those wandering in every direction.” It is this state of mind, he says, that produces tranquility.

‘Listen, if you don’t unquestioningly believe everything you think, if you’re completely mindful (and only when you are), if your attention is unfettered, you will discover a fundamental truth. That the universe operates according to this principle: You will know what you need to know when you need to know it.’

Fierce trust demands that you put forth the work anyhow, because fierce trust knows that the outcome does not matter. The outcome cannot matter.

The mind is not identical with the defilement and distraction that beset and usually overwhelm it, and thus it may be freed from them; it is capable of growth and improvement and may be trained.

“abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them.”

Trust has nothing to do with people. You can extend trust to anything with the possibility of the same amazing results.

neither. It is equally faulty to trust everyone and to trust no one. Yet