if you can’t live with the worst version of yourself then you have no business talking about the best version the higher you climb the harder you fall — and though you end up in the same place — you will have to live with your fall, and you better be ready to live with …
Tag: integrity
Discriminate Not Hate
whether I hate you or love you whatever I label you or don’t label whether I offend you or please you doesn’t change the only thing of substance, and that’s: WHETHER you are USEFUL to me OR NOT just because I don’t want to associate with you doesn’t mean I hate you just because …
Values And Repulsion
It’s only natural to be REPELLED by behaviors which don’t lead you to where you want to be (providing you know and value the place you want to be). Such REPULSION has nothing to do with “being negative” or “mean”. It’s a natural protection mechanism for values. Conversely: If your values are …
Incongruent Congruence
True congruence doesn’t look congruent from the outside — as it involves numerous incongruent-looking decisions. One who is truly devoted to reality — and so congruent in this devotion — will be changing his mind ALL THE TIME. To change one’s mind often is not the common perception of congruence. And …
Do It Genuinely Or Do Nothing
When you don’t feel like, don’t want to do something — the question is not whether you should do it or not, The question is: -Why you feel the way you feel? -Why you were to do it? -Why do you not want to do it? -Why? What-You-Do is irrelevant. But self-knowledge is …
Effort To NOT Be Inauthentic
Outside inhibitions stifle inner expression. Authenticity may require reconstructing one’s entire method of communicating with the world. This can be arduous. Don’t confuse arduous with inauthentic. You’re not arduously trying to impress somebody. You’re arduously trying to STOP trying to impress somebody. Trying to stop behaving in a preordained way. One is so …
Virtue of Integrity
Obsessing over some virtue of integrity is how you forfeit integrity. By trying to be something – you are already disloyal to what you actually are. (and you still fail to change, because *trying* doesn’t bring about changes; consciousness does) Integrity is seeing what you actually are. One must simply watch himself without uttering the …