All Quotes By Tag: Trust

“There are different levels of trust, and I need to get back to the point where he trusts me so much he no longer has to say it aloud.”

“But it seems logical… a man and a woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally. …. I can’t always be Lois Lane,” I insisted. “ I want to be Superman, too.”

“I wished to trust, and so I trusted. When events did not please me, my dreams reworked them.”

“Shraddha, loving trust, is the climate between a spiritual teacher and a student.”

“  “To be a spiritual teacher you need to develop the skills and the art to convey the truth to others. It is the most difficult art, because something has to be said about something that cannot be said in language, something has to be transmitted which is not transmitable.To be a spiritual teacher needs a particular training, a particular training to convey, a particular training to help, a particular training to advice and counsel, a particular training to create new devices and methods, because every individual and age need something different.”

“Awareness and compassion are the flower and the fragrance of the spiritual teacher. Compassion means living to give.”

“In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.”

“Shraddha, loving trust, is a spiritual discipline in itself between the spiritual teacher and student.”

“Without trust between the spiritual teacher and student it is not possible to attain to no-mind, because to attain no-mind needs trust.”

“Do not assume that someone else’s ego can love you. It cannot. It does not even love the person it resides in. The limit of the ego’s ‘love’ is to decide that you are a temporary ally and thus it will protect you for the benefit of its own use. Only a soul can accept and return love. Everything else is manipulation. Fragile arrangements. They are, at best, suspicious and, at worst, vicious.”

“Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others’ intentions. (p. 27)”

“Well, clearly someone you trust isn’t really someone you should be trusting,” she said without thinking, and regretted it when Terrible glanced at her. He did it fast, just a quick cut of his eyes in her direction and then away again, but she saw it. She felt it. It was starting already. She wished she could say she was surprised, wished she hadn’t been waiting for it, expecting it the way she expected rain from black clouds overhead. Nothing in the world was permanent, especially not happiness. She’d always known that. She just wished life would stop proving her right.”

“He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands.”

“He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love?”

“You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.”