Honesty is the best policy - Miguel de Cervantes

Being truthful, honest, and sincere is like a mountain of rock that the stormy seas of deceptive, unscrupulous, or untrustworthy energies cannot touch.

To do the right thing is often the right thing to do - Lord Home of the Hirsel

How would you personally establish truth, honesty, sincerity and integrity as the continuing pathway for your thoughts and actions? List some ways you can accomplish these goals. Making the choice and developing greater strength to choose truth and honesty over lies and deceptions can be a powerful tool. Like positive thinking and gratitude, we must apply ourselves to remembering and acting on the truth.

Thomas Jefferson, former president of the United States, once wrote in a letter to one of his contemporaries: "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, 'til at length it becomes habitual. He tells lies without attending to it and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

An important step in the practice of personal honesty is to know ourselves.

How would you personally establish truth, honesty, sincerity and integrity as the basis for your thoughts and actions? List some ways you can accomplish these goals. Making the choice and developing greater strength to choose truth and honesty over lies and deceptions can be a powerful tool. Like positive thinking and gratitude, we must apply ourselves to remembering and acting on the truth.

One year's seeding makes seven years' weeding - English proverb