And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.