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Reading 87 of 308 | Day 102

Season of Practice

Theme: Ethics, discipline, facing darkness

4. What Truth Is Not

The Tenets

(87) Truth is not cruelty wearing a mask of honesty.

"I'm just being honest" does not excuse words designed to wound. Truth can be spoken gently. Truth can be spoken with timing and care. Truth can sometimes be held in silence, not because you are hiding it, but because the moment is not right and the mind that needs to hear it is not ready.

Passage 87