If we trust everyone, we will be headless. If we trust no one, we will be heartless. During the course of our interactions with others, we may go through a pendulum. On one side, we may just take everyone at face value and trust them and we may end up being badly cheated. And because of that, we may go to the other extreme and think that nobody is trustworthy. I will not trust anyone. And that can be actually even worse. Because when the first can make us headless in the sense of being foolish, the second can make us heartless in the sense of leaving us utterly cold and lonely. What we need is a balance where we use our intelligence and take gentle steps of faith in developing our relationships.

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13.10 … Detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest, even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; … [ – all these I declare to be knowledge].