Trust

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Goethe

To discern between people who might save your life and those who might ruin it, you must be reliable, honest—in a word, trustworthy—toward yourself. And we do this far less often than most people realize.

"The Master...trusts people who are trustworthy," wrote Lao Tzu, and that's what we need to do.