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Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.

Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.

Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern

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Tara Brach
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Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Tara Brach: documented birth year 1953; activity date not established. Wikidata Q7685034, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7685034 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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