The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ~Socrates
I looked up the meaning of the word Integrity and one of its meanings is to be in a state of completeness, undivided.
My girlfriend said the definition that they are teaching children in elementary school, is that what you say, what you think and what you do all match.
I had to let go of many relationships of people who were unable to walk the talk they talked.
I am much more in awe of folks who have integrity and make no excuses even if what they are doing is unkind. At least they are not putting on a friendly face while acting poorly.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it’s a duck.
We get lulled by words and swayed in fancy sentences when actions are way off base.
My husband knows a man called Snake, and he asked him how he got that handle? The man said he earned it. I like that. My husband went on to tell me this man spent time in jail for having a relationship with a young girl…
If only we called folks by their behaviors it would make life a much easier way to navigate.
“People show us who they are, Believe them,” is Maya Angelou’s quote.
The key words are Show and Believe… it is as if the world is one big place of Show and Tell, but instead of bring something to show, we bring ourselves.
We are all showing people who we are and they are showing us.
It is not a game of pretending to be something different.
Watch actions, how they display themselves and how they take care of their lives, they are on this stage called life being who they are, it is our job to believe what it is we see.
How often do you give them the benefit of doubt? Whose doubt? Who doesn’t want to believe and why? What will happen if you believe? What will you lose?
It is incredible to me now to not believe them. It is like they are screaming their truths and we are blocking our ears and shutting our eyes.
“People Show you who they are, BELIEVE them.”
We don’t want to believe who they are, for it will wreck our dream.
The pain we are afraid of is the sorrow of our broken dreams.
It isn’t so much that we lose them; we lose our dreams and our future.
Yet what is the karma we are actually tending to?
A lifetime of dancing with people who are disappointing, for they can’t measure up to what we hold in our minds, for we refuse to believe who they really are.
It gets you so confused, that you then lose who you are.
You are a believer of what is not.
While extremely painful, it was very liberating to finally be able to believe in what people showed me. I love what is. I stay in step and in tune with the show and tell!
I M Perfect lady 