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WHAT IS TRUSTED?
TRUST	Ignorance trusts in everything or trusts in nothing. Wiseness seeks evidence of trustworthiness. Faith in the self, faith in others, faith in systems, and natural or supernatural faith all require trust. Decide—who or what is trustworthy?
LEARNING	A learned procedure becomes Known, and then is automatically fast and efficient, operating instinctively. Often forgotten was the procedure's slow learning process. There is satisfaction in learning how—which is important—but not as much in learning why. The questions how and why are often answered with rationalizing, rather than rational, reasons. (When satisfied with how's results, why doesn't seem to matter.) But why does matter because it is a deeper question. An honest answer to either question may cause new purpose. A new purpose requires different goals. Different goals mean new learning.
PROCESS	Learning is a process that remains the same, but looks different in each application because of the unique vocabulary that suits the subject. Whether physical, mental, or both, it is slow. The old saw: "Practice makes perfect." emphasizes how the slow learning process, repeated often enough, becomes automatic and instinctive, fast and efficient.
ERROR	Each stage of the learning process has a characteristic error that sabotages its purity, honesty, and understanding. For positive and negative thinking styles, click on this reference.

TRUST
LEARNING PROCESS	TRUST IN TRUTH SEE THE TRUTH	LEARNING ERRORS	TRUST IN PERSONAL BELIEF OF TRUTH SEE THE BELIEF
Miracle	Insight into the miracle of life.	Generalize	A concept of "how things are" is generalized into "that's how things are supposed to be."
Atonement	Being "at one" with how things are.	Personalize	Being "at one" with a personal view of "how things are supposed to be."
Period of undoing	Rather than perceiving things as "given away" or "taken away," perceive only helpfulness.	False evidence	False evidence is used to justify "how things are supposed to be." If it is not as supposed to be, Then something is wrong. False evidence justifies the wrong as right.
Period of sorting out	Measure the helpfulness of events, encounters, and circumstances.	False comparison	False comparisons are created by false evidence. Sorting the helpful from the unhelpful depends on accurate comparisons.
Period of relinquishment	Trusting in truth asks for relinquishment of false, but that may be hard to determine. It might be easier to relinquish the unhelpful.	Emotional reasoning	Relinquish wnat is not wanted. But if the choice ignores or discounts facts, emotions make the choice.
Period of settling down	Consolidate your choices: give up what you do not want and keep what you do want.	Blind acceptance	Settle down on the choices made, but if choices are blindly accepted, differences and similarities are invisible.
Period of unsettling	Unsettlement because natural doubt is like 'buyer's remorse.' Have I made the right choice?	False relationship	If a choice was righteous, how dare it be wrong? Keeping the choice despite error overcomes the doubt of 'buyer's remorse,' especially when 'shoulds' dominate. Bad choices seek false relationships.
Period of achievement	Enjoying the choices made.	Pre-conception	Choosing according to pre-conceptions avoids self-doubt. Pre-conceptions tend to ignore reality, so pre-conceived 'rightness' can be maintained.
Honesty	Have consistent integrity.	False construction	Inconsistent self-serving pre-conceptions create dishonesty. Everyone believes in their own opinions, and often believe they are honest when not even right. A weak foundation undermines a strong structure, making the whole construction weak. Some popular logic is constructed on false premises.
Tolerance	Accept differing perceptions, opinions, choices, and behavior.	Invalid conjugation	An invalid conjugation joins 'right' to 'righteous,' when they do not co-exist. Intolerance for differences, or inability to perceive sameness, is a good reason for questioning certain behavior.
Gentleness	Honesty and tolerance are expressed with the strength of gentleness, not the weakness of brutality. These values are reversed.	False credit	Selfish behavior is often falsely credited as wise and benevolent. Acting honest or tolerant is falsely credited as being honest and tolerant. Gentleness and brutality do not co-exist.
Joy	Joy, the ultimate expression of happiness, comes from trusting in the laws of the universe.	False cause	Satisfaction at success that serves a narrow purpose is a false cause for satisfaction, much less happiness. Great satisfaction is mistaken for happiness. No wonder joy, then, seems beyond reach. It is.
Defenselessness	Defensiveness acknowledges an attack, and can even see an attack when there was none. A real attack might succeed, even look like a permanent success, but does wrong ever conquer right? Right doesn't need defense. Righteousness does.	Jump to conclusion	A correct position needs no defense. An unwarranted position should not be defended, yet rationalizations justify positions. It's natural to jump to the conclusion to defend, whether there was an attack or not, or whether the attack was warranted or not, because justification seems necessary. (Righteousness is needed to defend an unwarranted opinion.) Quoting ACIM: "Defenses are but foolish guardians of mad illusions."
Generosity	Trusting in a value like kindness increases the quality of kindness in both giver and receiver. Sharing is true generosity.	Wishful thinking	Commitments appearing generous but for a narrow group, or that serve a narrow purpose, demonstrate wishful thinking. "If I think it so, it must be so," is wishful thinking. Nature prevails and the universe wins, despite wishful thinking. Is that wishful thinking?
Patience	Patience is necessary, especially when results from good works aren't immediately apparent. Awareness occurs at different rates. Some actions don't seem to have any effect. When the effect does happen, it seems to have relation to the cause! Have patience and trust in intent.	False identification	Patiently waiting for a result that serves a narrow audience or purpose falsely calls short-term goals long-term. Long-term is eternal. False identification prevails only in the short term
Faith	Faith in the Learning Process, in the self as part of the whole, and in the rules natural to this universe.	False context	False context IS a false faith.
Open-mindedness	An open mind does not judge. Judgment denies possibilities.	Denial	Denial is a judgment that closes the mind. Awareness is still alive, because denial of something acknowledges its existence. Acknowledging the existence of mind recognizes the ability to think and make choices. Denial may solve an immediate concern, but the concern always resurfsces, sometimes in another form.
Revelation	Insight into a small or large truth of a concern IS a revelation.	Prejudice	Denial unwillingly acknowledges existence. Prejudice doesn't. Insights, rights, awareness, and revelations are impossible, because none exist in the prejudiced mind.

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ADVANCE	To grok the Labyrinth, go to The Will/Mind Concept page.
OVERVIEW	Go to TABLE OF CONTENTS of the Labyrinth of the Spirit.
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