Fail-safe

There is a First Agreement that obviates the need for any other agreement. And it is this: I agree to be guided from within.

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

The willingness to be guided from within

When we break it down, we find that there is only one failure—the failure to trust in oneself. Ralph Waldo Emerson described self-trust as the iron string to which all else vibrates.