Who Can You Trust?
About the greatest challenge as a human
Trust has three aspects. One is to trust another person; another is to trust the course of events; and the third is to trust yourself.
To trust another person means to assume that the other person is acting truthfully. In non-human nature, everything is truthful; therefore, there is only trust. Even a gazelle trusts a lion — namely that it wants to eat it, so it runs away. We humans can act untruthfully; therefore, we distrust each other … but we long to be able to trust.
Trusting the course of events is a prerequisite for a truly fulfilled life. It requires understanding our existence from a bird’s eye view.
In the following, I will shed light on all three aspects and explain how important trust is for the future of humankind.
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