If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of y…

Alan Watts
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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 ✨ Alan Watts (2010). Tao: The Watercourse Way, p.43, Souvenir Press
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