Tag: inspiration

“Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self. The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties: all of us are afraid of loss, in all its forms; all of us, at times, are haunted or overwhelmed by the possibility of this.” (Whyte, D. 2015. Consolations. Many Rivers Press, Langley, Washington). I attended an AA meeting last Sunday morning where the subject of the meeting was honesty. Interesting questions were posed such as: “What is honesty?” “Did you have a time in your life when honesty was completely