We protect the truth principally by telling the truth about ourselves
I have learned that bad feelings are inevitable; if we want to be honest with ourselves and others, we have to confess them. It’s a matter of discipline.
How? First of all, by forcing ourselves not to disguise them as the feelings of a fearless person who holds the truth paramount. Are we tormented by that good-natured female friend whom everyone likes, while we have to struggle for a crumb of affection? Fine: we shouldn’t react by telling everyone that her success is the result of some carefully orchestrated hypocrisy. Above all, we shouldn’t justify our slander by saying that it is a love of the truth that drives us: that makes us as much a hypocrite as she is.
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