Top Reasons to Practice Truthfulness

Top 10 Reasons to Practice TruthfulnessNikki Harper – As human beings, honesty is one of the most valuable traits we can possess. It is the foundation of all healthy relationships, both personal and professional, and it is the cornerstone of a life well-lived. Honesty is the quality of being truthful and sincere, and it is an essential aspect of personal integrity.

But it’s not always easy to be honest. Often in life, it’s tempting to tell a lie – a little white lie, as we tend to sell it to ourselves. Often we might feel that this is the kindest thing to do – or the thing that suits us best.

We may be dishonest to save someone else from pain, or to further our own interests. Dishonesty is a human trait just as much as honesty is – but there are reasons why in the end, truthfulness is always a better bet. Continue reading

Woman Returns Nearly $15K She Found, Receives Jeep as Thanks

Woman Returns Nearly $15K She Found, Receives Jeep as Thanks Michael Foster – A Michigan woman returned nearly $15,000 worth of cash she found outside a gas station, and members of her community helped organize a generous gift to reward her for her honesty.

Dianne Gordon of White Lake Township in Michigan was walking home from work one snowy night in late January when she made a stop at the BP station near Pontiac Lake Road for a brief respite from the winter weather. Just outside the door, she found a bag containing $14,780, a GoFundMe page explains. Continue reading

Expanding Energetically

Expanding EnergeticallyAilia Mira – There is a lot of realigning going on.

Many of us have experienced a lot of expansion and an increase in coherence. This may make it clearer to you what really matters. It may also make you want to say, “No,” to some things that you used to do, and enjoy, simply because you’re now focused on something different.

Also? You may find that all that self-love practice has taken root more than you realized, and you’re now available for something different — your standards have changed. Continue reading

Paragons and Parasites

realityZen Gardner – There are all kinds of people in this whirled. Givers and takers, throwers and catchers, lovers and haters, leaders and followers, suckers and caretakers – – as well as a myriad of other interplaying dynamics at work. We all play many sides at different times if we’re honest, both consciously and unconsciously.

It’s just how it is.

But the predominance of what we choose to participate in and how we conduct ourselves has everything to do with our current reality. That’s where free will and awakening come into play.

It all depends on the participant. Where are we “coming from”? Under which level of spell are we operating? What is influencing us and how much are we yielding to it?

Big stuff to take into consideration but consider it we must.

After all, isn’t that what our whirled is made up of? A spectrum between paragons of unselfish truth and love, and opposing life-sucking parasites of deceit at every level imaginable?

Our Very Real Whirled

We face an extremely parasitic influence dominating humanity, best exemplified by government, religion and false societal obligations. The root meaning of government is mind control. Fact is, there are those predisposed to riding herd on what they consider inferior masses of humanity for self serving parasitic purposes that are audaciously acting out their programs in our very midst while convincing their “subjects” it is for their own good and protection. Continue reading

Spiritual Honesty: Why Good Thinking And Bad Feelings Matter

“To learn about spirituality, to become spiritual, you have to give up all you think is spiritual.”

honestyJack Adam Weber – Without honesty, we live in disaccord with reality, which bears all kinds of hidden problems. Honesty is truth, and refers to the accurate perception of ourselves, each other, and the outside world.

We can only heal to the degree that we are honest, for what goes unnoticed, especially inside us, will remain largely unchanged. Our spirituality is no exception. In this vein, I will first discuss intellectual and emotional honesty as a build-up to spiritual honesty. So, please bear with me while I set the stage for this fruit of our best-used inner resources.

Intellectual Honesty

Intellectual Honesty is our capacity to notice and accurately report to ourselves and others what is true in the world, what is true of ourselves and our own logic (if it is internally consistent), and what we honestly believe. Intellectual honesty relies on our subjective capacity to level-headedly assess what is most likely true, what is factual, which is another way of describing rationality and self-evident common sense.

Some things we all consider to be true. This is called consensual, objective reality. Drinking poison will hurt you. Lying to others for our gain at another’s expense is hurtful. Abusing children is damaging and not compassionate. Unless you are a psychopath, we all hold these to be true. Good science and self-evident common sense inform us of objective truths. We now know the Earth is not flat, that it revolves around the sun and that gravity is an invisible force that causes things to fall to Earth. This all pertains to fact, to intellectual honesty. Continue reading