Greetings Readers!
Here is the next volume of our series — Letters to a Young Seeker (Catch up on previous volumes: Don’t Forget to Live, Break Bread with the Dead, Live an Examined Life, Carry the Fire, The Art of Optimism, and Think Like a Mortal).
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Dear Fellow Traveler,
Do you trust yourself? Seriously, do you listen to your own heart? In his essay Self-Reliance, the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” The notion of trusting or thinking for yourself is a perennial idea.
“As soon as you trust yourself,” observed the eighteenth-century poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “you will know how to live.” My recent podcast guest, Mark Matousek (author of Lessons from an American Stoic), connected trust with practical wisdom. He called wisdom the ability to be honest with ourselves.
What type of life do you want to lead? What kind of person are you working to become? If we’re honest, we all have answers to these types of questions. Do you trust yourself enough to put your answer(s) into practice?
