Honesty and integrity are more than values: they are the values that determine other values.
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- Steven Barnes
- For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had. After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life. After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.
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Sadly, they're also values that have lost a lot of cachet, just because the words get thrown around a lot without any meaning attached, much like 'hard work' and 'loyalty', which young people nowadays see as euphemisms for doing what we're told by uncaring authorities.
That said, integrity ain't about other people, it's about your word to yourself. There's something to that old truism about virtue being its own reward. Only you have to go to sleep *really* knowing what you today.
This reminded me of what I'm reading the Hagakure. They almost seem like notions of ancient ways, but they still hold as much weight as the ocean holds water though.
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