honesty is always the best policy...honesty is telling the truth even if u think the other person's feelings may be hurt...when u tell a lie, even a little white lie, u are not expressing who u really are and in fact, giving a false impression of who u are...false impressions can hurt any type of relationship...thus to keep e relationship healthy, we need to always tell the truth and forego telling the white lies altogether...being honest in a relationship also means the need to be tactful when being honest...can't always say exactly what may be on your mind at any given moment...make sure u think before u speak...say things honestly yet nicely...i'll just accept whoever u are even if it is difficult to have compassionate honesty imbedded...honesty in relationships are always a good idea but if we can be nice while being honest, thats the best outcome so that we don't harm the relationship by being mean...compassionate honesty is the best way to achieve honesty in relationships...
this also means that not keeping things hidden from loved ones...when u hide things from one another, a dishonest relationship is created...worst of all it can hurt the relationship, especially when the other person finds out about the things hidden...hiding things in relationships is just another way of being dishonest...
hopefully this will help our relationship progress and become better where we both can learn and grow together..the more compassionately honest we are the more trust that will be built on both sides of the relationship...Trust in a relationship comes from being honest and compassionate not overlooking faults but being tolerant...
Very impressive and inspiring thoughts.
ReplyDeleteYikes ...honesty to ones self is probably harder than honesty to others.
It is easy to fool people...but no matter how hard we try...we can never fool our own selves into knowing what is true and false.
People worry too much about how their true thoughts will affect others...not realizing that this fact is disabling their abilities to just be true. This is one huge factor which confuses so many.
To be true to ones self is to have acceptance which follows through to unconditional love...if you have that...then all of the rest falls into place in your reactions to others.