Honesty  -- Week 8  

Honesty is an opportunity to move through the world gracefully without harming other people. 

To speak or act dishonestly is to put our own interests ahead of someone else’s. 

To distort what they experience to fit our needs, or to take their possessions for ourselves. 

This is why dishonesty causes such disappointment and pain. Whereas to be honest is to cherish the needs and wishes of someone else. 

It is a statement that we care about another person’s welfare.

Honesty is a personal choice that arises every time that human beings connect with one another.

Each individual has the opportunity to be straightforward and honest in their dealings with other people, regardless of their health, family situation, possessions or resources.

In doing so, they help to create a culture of honesty for everyone.

 ref: Compassion And Wisdom.org

Topics for discussion:  (From 16-G PDF)

1. What does it mean for you to be honest with yourself?
What thoughts come up? How does it feel?
How does it influence your actions? 

2.  How easy or difficult is it to act with honesty in your personal relationships at home, at work, in your life?  

 .... or whatever is alive in you.  

 Words of Wisdom

“If you tell the truth,
you don’t have to
remember anything.”

~  Mark Twain

 "How we ACT."  (review)

Every positive action makes a better world. 

Every thought and action has consequence.

If everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made, then if you want a different result, you need to make a different choice. 

Human lives are composed of billions of actions of body, speech and mind which take place every minute from the moment of birth until the second when we take our last breath.

How we choose to act defines and colors the quality of our life and experiences.

How we act is not only important for our own welfare, but also for others.  

Through our actions we have the choice to nurture friendships, families, community and society – or to bring pain and disharmony. 

Everything we do sets in motion a chain of events.  The deeper we probe into this, the stronger is the call to pay intense attention to how we think and subsequently behave, because the consequences can be so complex and far-reaching. 

ref:  Compassion And Wisdom.org

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