"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot..." - Quote by Alan Watts
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
More by Alan Watts
“Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”
“The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.”
“You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.”
More on Trust
“We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.”
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
“The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.”
More on Self
“Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.”
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
“The real friend is another self.”