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Revision: 6 Mar 2025

Trust (noun)

  • Openness to the unknown.
  • Willingness to be with the unknown.
  • Willingness to engage with the unknown.
  • Willingness to allow a person to act or a process to unfold without worrying or trying to control the situation.
  • Willingness to allow life to unfold without worrying or trying to control the situation.
  • Willingness to experience what life has to offer.
  • To be in trust is to operate beyond ego.
  • Trust that relies upon beliefs, concepts, or ideas about trustworthiness is a weak form of trust that could be called contingent trust.
  • Supreme Trust is natural in the knowing of THE SUPREME.
  • Supreme Trust relies on no beliefs, concepts, or ideas of trustworthiness.
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