truth-telling

What is worse than doing evil, is being evil_ (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that _(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie_ (Ethics, p.67).

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.

Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them.""They do. You just can't see them right," Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. "All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line and be peered at and inspected? We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say, lines on maps are silly. Where you live, the awful machinery is smaller, harder to see. Less honest, that's all. Whereas Rupert here? He's as honest as they come. Does what it says on the box.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

The god of fools is a fool just like them.

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing.

There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you.

If kindness wins, accountability rules.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say 'tell the truth,' and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.