Concept

Trust

Relying on something you cannot verify — a person, a process, or the world generally — and how anyone manages it.

8 passages · 7 traditions

Buddhist

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Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.65, “With the Kālāmas”"There are, sir, some ascetics and brahmins who come to Kesamutta. They explain and promote only their own doctrine, while they attack, badmouth, disparage, and smear the doctrines of others…

Christian

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Matthew 11:28–30"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for y…
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Matthew 6:25–34Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than…

Confucian

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Analects XII.4Sze-ma Niu asked about the superior man. The Master said, "The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear." "Being without anxiety or fear!" said Niu;—"does this constitute what we call the s…

Jewish

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Pirke Avot 1:14He used to say, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I care for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?"…

New Thought

PracticeAn instruction for practice
As a Man Thinketh, “Visions and Ideals”The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful…

Secular reflection

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Reflection: What I cannot verifyThere is a particular loneliness in not knowing what you believe, and it is made worse by how confident everyone else sounds. The confident are not necessarily lying. Some of them have thoug…

Stoic

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
On Peace of Mind, 17It also proves a fertile source of troubles if you take pains to conceal your feelings and never show yourself to anyone undisguised, but, as many men do, live an artificial life, in order t…

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