We must start practicing trust.

If we are incapable of trust, then we are depriving ourselves of one of life’s most elemental experiences. Trust in life – in the fact that we are alive and will carry on living – was the fundamental attitude of our childhood. How did we lose this trust when we became adults?

The enemy of trust is fear. I do not mean healthy, respectful fear of a higher being, but irrational, panicked fear of the unnameable. It squeezes the energy of life out of us. This fear exudes scepticism and mistrust, flooding us with pessimistic emotions. It whispers to us that the basis of our life is not an original trust, but a primeval fear.

We can only combat this fear by practicing trust in life. We must reassure ourselves daily the creation exists: the sun rises, clouds pass across the sky, the river flows toward the sea, a tree stands firmly planted in the earth, the wind rustles its leaves, people stroll along the road – creation is! And we are in the middle of creation. We breathe within it, we move within it, we sleep and wake at its centre.