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What does it mean?
One perfect, reliable thing is sufficient to sustain belief or value. Certainty in a single element can be enough.
In plain terms
One reliable thing is enough to give meaning.
What can you take from it?
Find sufficiency in a single certainty.

Where it applies

  • decision making
  • faith reflection
  • minimalist thinking

Putting it to work

  • life philosophy
  • decision making
  • simplifying

Questions to consider

  • What is one thing that is enough for you?
  • How do you find certainty?

Another view

It may underestimate the need for multiple supports.

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