A Tribute to The Greatest Principle

I spy a principle... it's fruits are clarity, liberation, knowledge, freedom. It takes the most energy to live, but returns the most in joy/faith/light/progress. It frees us from fear, darkness, and some pains.

"Some may regard the quality of character known as honesty to be a most ordinary subject. But I believe it to be the very essence of the gospel. Without honesty, our lives... will degenerate into ugliness and chaos." Gordon B. Hinckley, Seer *the opposite of ugliness is beauty... opposite of chaos is order.*

"At first it seems that telling the truth is more uncomfortable and difficult than telling a lie. And it is just this conviction that leads us to lie in order to hide our weaknesses and avoid giving explanations or getting into trouble- out of laziness or perhaps out of fear. Yet it is falsehood that in the long run is more difficult and complicates our life....

"Not only is honesty compatible with genuine kindness, it is the very basis of kindness.... As long as you are not living in the truth, you cannot really communicate with others, you cannot have trust, you cannot relate. As long as you do not call the hard realities by name, you are living in the land of dreams." Pierro Ferrucci, "The Power of Kindness"

If you can live a second of truth, you can live a minute of it... and an hour, a day, and a lifetime... then you will have nothing to hide and you will have no burden forever.