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Video Transcript
Jack Kornfield: What helps us to trust?
Br. David Steindl-Rast: What helps us to trust?
Jack Kornfield: Yeah. How do we learn to trust?
Br. David Steindl-Rast: Well, by doing it. If we do it, for instance, if we are grateful ,which is a beautiful expression of trust in life…if we are grateful, we see that things work, and we experience joy. So if we experience joy, we want to do it again and again and again. Life draws us into it.
Jack Kornfield: So entering the river of gratitude begins to reinforce or show us that it’s possible to live in that way, that it’s possible to draw us…
Br. David Steindl-Rast: The river is a beautiful image also in this respect that you have to swim, you see, and in order to swim, you have to entrust yourself. You can learn as much as you want about swimming from books and so forth, and stand in the water and do like this [making paddling motion with hands] [laughter from audience]. But unless you really let yourself down into it, you’ll never swim.

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