May 6, 2006
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Doubt
Doubt takes many forms. One form of doubt is fear that we’ll hurt ourselves or make a mistake by going forward. Another form of doubt is feeling that we’ve misunderstood our lives and that we’re constantly making a fundamental mistake.
Being without doubt has nothing to do with accepting the validity of a philosophy or concept. Being without doubt means that we connect with ourselves, that we experience mind and body being synchronized together. Absence of doubts comes from trusting in the heart, trusting ourselves. When mind and body are synchronized, then we have no doubt.
Comments (7)
Doubt can kill our happiness.
Wow, I guess I have no doubt about it….. Have a good one chi..
I can’t see myself ever getting to that place, at least not in this lifetime.
Some times people just walk through doubt and fear. I am glad you like the pictures I post I like to surround myself with beauty. Judi
On the one hand, it’s wonderful (and sometimes validly useful) to have no doubts.
On the other, it’s unhealthy NOT to doubt.
Depends entirely on the situation and the context.
On most of the large questions, I’m full of doubt. I’m always questioning, always doubting that I’ve found the ultimate and final truth because no matter how much we learn, there is always still more to be learned.
So that would be “the other hand,” as described above.
And on “the one hand,” i.e., the case where “no doubt” is a good thing, I am supremely confident that I’m on the right path. But … for me being on “the right path” means that I realize I might learn someday to leave that path for a better one. So even my “no doubt” state has doubts.
And I am very happy with that.
The day I stop learning things is the day I die inside.
Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the servant of truth.
Question your convictions, for beliefs too tightly held strangle the mind and its natural wisdom.
Suspect all certitudes, for the world whirls on — nothing abides.
Yet in our inner rooms full of doubt, inquiry and suspicion, let a corner be reserved for trust.
For without trust there is no space for communities to gather or for friendships to be forged.
Indeed, this is the small corner where we connect — and reconnect — with each other.
Author Unknown
Good. Thought provoing post.