If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Act and speak with integrity
July 30, 2024 | 15 comments
Spiritual ideas that inspire healing
July 30, 2024 | 15 comments
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Here is a great moral compass which I have shared with many in business over the years::
“Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness which forfeits divine help”. MBE
also of interest –
Sentinel Article
February 3, 1962 Issue
“Honesty is spiritual power”
MARGUERITE B. BIERWIRTH
Thank you Ted- this topic is so important. And it’s important to anknowledge integrity and honesty are built into each and every one of us as the perfect ideas of God.
Here’s a link to that article.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/vzbwutww8u?s=copylink
Thank you for this wonderful article!
DKM it is a good point you make that honesty and integrity are built into us by God, along with all the other spiritual qualities with which He made us. Sometimes we wrongly believe that we must humanly struggle and strive to make a mortal self become honest, do the right thing etc.. Knowing that these qualities are part of our true nature is a very healing concept.
Thank you Ted & DKM, for a wonderful and inspiring article. Agree DKM that this topic is so important. A family member always acts with integrity in dealing with business customers and gives honest assessments to their problems, in spite of a business culture that wants to squelch this moral and ethical behavior. In turn, customers ask for him specifically, trust and respect him. I love the quote by Mark Twain: “It’s never wrong to do the right thing”. A quote to live by.
If we are lead and follow the spirt of Love, divine Love, then our intent should be consistent with that principle. Love is kind, sufferth long, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly. The tools of our warfare against evil, error in it intentional state, are not the same as those who would do otherwise.
How true – the Truth. Honesty is a characteristic that is God-given to us and when
we don’t tell lies (mortal deceptions) in the first place, we don’t have to keep telling
them over and over or in more devious ways or in silence, to try to cover up what
was said or done.. It has been said that the cover up always gets you. Telling lies
snowballs into more and more lies and that becomes harder to remember the original
lies until the truth finally comes out, which it always does. I once had a friend who
would tell lies and one could never trust her because one never knew When she was
telling the truth or not. Lies purported to be true are never a good way and makes
one scramble to disappear evidence of the truth, causing angst .. so it is much better
to tell the truth (Truth) in the first place … so as not to have to backtrack and be seen
as someone other than a child of God, who Always tells and reflects the Truth.
Eddy sats
THE MAN OF INTEGRITY IS ONE WHO MAKES IT HIS CONSTANT RULE TO FOLLOW
THE ROAD OF DUTY ACCORDING AS TRUTH AND THE VOICE OF HIS CONSCIENCE POINT IT OUT TO HIM.
THE UPRIGHT MAN IS GUIDED BY A FIXED PRINCIPLE WHICH DESTINES HIM TO DO
NOTHING BUT WHAT IS HONORABLE AND TO ABHOR WHATEVER IS BASE OR UNWORTHY, HENCE WE FIND
HIM EVER THE SAME, AT ALL TIMES THE TRUSTED FRIEND, THE AFFECTIONATE RELATIVE, AND THE CONSCIENTIOUS MAN OF BUSINESS THE PIOUS WORKER THE PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN
MARY BAKER EDDY
MBE advises to move gently from matter to Spirit. The sometimes halting process of spiritualization or recognition and embracing of our true nature as individuated expressions of all of God’s qualities of necessity enables in a natural way the unfolding of perception and expression of true integrity and an expansive undeviating quality of real honesty. We leave the unending fog of the “tangled web” for the higher ground of Truth as we increasingly see through the illusions of mortal mind.
Thank you all. Excellent food for thought. I’ll be striving today to be 100% honest in how I see myself and others today: in truth.
Some thoughts that I’ve come across that I have found helpful:
“The truth is still the truth, even if no one believes it. A lie is still a lie, even if
everyone believes it”.
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose, it will defend itself.”
– St. Augustine
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
“No one is more hated – [even Jesus was] – than he who speaks the truth” – Plato
“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act” – George Orwell
Great spiritview thank you Evan and all the readers with quotes and links!
Thank you Great spiritview Evan and thank you all the readers with quotes and links!
https://www.google.com/search?q=herb+owen+truth+utube&oq=herb+owen+truth+utube&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigAdIBCTE2MjM0ajBqN6gCFLACAQ&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:d334b2b3,vid:bqxEtuQMKns,st:0
I have a great niece and a great nephew who both got involved in drugs and alcohol and were jailed and, thus, are felons. My niece has now been clean and sober for 2 years and is a wonderful young woman. My nephew is still in a half-way house and looking for an apartment to no avail. Sarah, my niece, advised him to be totally honest with the person interviewing him for an apartment, so he finally did that and the woman said she will have an apartment for him within 2 weeks. Yay! Honesty is the best policy ALWAYS!