The Unity Of Doubt And Confidence

We all have doubts, and some of us have confidence, but both can be – and are – mistaken. Doubt is associated with low self-esteem, while confidence is connected to high self-esteem.

However.
Within doubt, there can be confidence – a sense of wonder.
Within confidence, there can be doubt – a sense of wonder.

This wonder is the moment of emptiness.
We cannot know emptiness as we are that.

‘Proper people’ know ‘everything’, but their confidence is misplaced, so doubt doesn’t exist for them. We may want to be ‘proper people’, but ‘proper people’ just do and say what ‘proper people’ do and say, and there is no wonder. Those who doubt find confident people confusing.

Proper: from Latin proprius ‘one’s own, special’.
Property: from Latin proprietas, from proprius ‘one’s own, particular, special’.

Any owned self-image, whether low or high, is characteristic of an illusion.

Giving up owning ourself releases us from suffering. This is why and how we can have empathetic compassion for all who doubt and all who are confident. 🙂