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Spirituality: Honesty

© Myrrha

This article is the second in a series of brief explorations into various facets of Spirituality. In attempting to define spirituality for myself, I would also like input from you who are reading this. There are many who follow the spiritual path though their affiliations are in one or another of the myriad religions which exist today. From this, I conclude that spirituality is not defined by religion or dogma, but some other element. That element is what I seek in these explorations.

In viewing how honesty plays a part in spirituality, I won't be delivering "Thou shalt nots." I once took an ethics class at a community college. This class was taught by a Baptist minister. He believed that there are the infrequent circumstances which justify lying. His example was that of withholding the truth of a patient's condition if that person was dying. I disagreed. But, I can understand the argument that it may do more harm than good to tell the patient the truth. I have to wonder if one must be omniscient to be able to assess the actual outcome of a situation in order to make that decision.

Trust is one of the adhesive in any relationship. For me, the level of trust I can have in a person not only determines the depth my relationship with that person will have, but the amount of interaction I will have with that person. I'm very sensitive to the duplicity that is very common to the thought processes of most individuals. Some more so than others. I am also sensitive to the truth or lack thereof in most interactions I have with folks I deal with regularly. I pay close attention to what a person says and what they do. That is the true school in learning people. NOT prying into their life by asking questions you don't necessarily have the right to receive an answer to.

When one lies, one creates a world of unreality within that relationship. The more untrue constructs one builds in a relationship, the more substance the unreal world has. One person perhaps is building a structure within the relationship based on truth which will be sound, the other is building a structure with many faults (the construct is not sound). The two structures will then not be complementary and the one will eventually collapse.

I am aware of the many excuses to not tell the truth: "I just wanted to be nice," "I wanted and therefore got it," "I was embarrassed at what I saw, did, or said," "Didn't want to appear in a bad light to this individual," "It wasn't any of their

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