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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed"— Alan Watts
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Meaning of this quote
Even doubting your own judgment requires some reliance on the capacity that is doing the doubting.
Key takeaway:
Balance self-questioning with enough practical trust to act.
Origin of the quote
Tao: The Watercourse Way; p. 43 in the cited 2010 edition.
Who actually said this?
Work identified by a secondary bibliographic reference; exact wording has not been checked against the original edition.
