8-15-03
My dear Friends, I have spend a great deal of time thinking about honor and integrity. What I have come to realize is sad to the heart. It is rely possible, that we live in a time and in a society where our generation has no integrity or honor?
We, unfortunately, live in a society where to have honor or integrity makes us rogues. Greed, lust, and wrath are the very things that diminish honor and integrity, and yet we are raised to believe that these are the social norms. How it is that the size of a man�s paycheck tells us his worth as a man? I will never know.
We want to surround ourselves with people ripe with honor and integrity, not because they are attractive people, which honor and integrity definitely increases there attractiveness, but because they usually radiate with it and helps us strive to be honorable and full integrity ourselves.
Honor and integrity are fragile things. And once you have earned them and kept them they
will tattoo character all over you, and you will inspire others to become like you. Honor and integrity do come at a high price. Once these two characteristics are reached life will seem to change on its own, As will many of the people you know. You will see the world through new eyes. Seeking honor and integrity is much like Buddhist belief. Seek it and it naturally will find you. But you must want it.