by Steve Marshall

Created on: June 20, 2008

There should never arise a dispute, or an altercation pitting honesty against brutal frankness. Honesty, true honesty, is always an aspect of truth, and is never brutal. All truth has love attached to it, and can bring only love to the person being told truth, as long as this truth is availably ready for the recipient.

Love measures truth honestly, and allows the amount of truth to be given that never causes resentment, or rebellion against it. These are defences of the ego. The right amount of honest truth, given with love, can be the key to connect to the other persons heart, and begin in them a search for honest truth, and love as well.

Honesty always comes from awareness or insight. Honesty is the quickest, the most efficient way to move forwards on your path towards your own spiritual development. The more honesty that you possess, the more loving you will find that you will also be. Following honesty is being loving to yourself, and to others, and will never be a cause for you to be held back in any way, by being always totally honest.

Honesty is the only path that moves you forwards.

Am I saying here that honesty is more important than even love on the path of spiritual development, and is that right?

Honesty is a part of unconditional love, and so is less than love, but it is only part of real love. Lesser shades of honesty match different levels of loving, and so it is true that as you become more honest, you also will become more loving, and as you become more loving, you will naturally become more honest then, too.

Is honesty ever brutal in its frankness? How can we always be honest, and yet still remain totally loving?

Honesty is part of love, and frankness is part of honesty. Honesty is not always brutally frank, and never when love is attached to it. To tell the truth, honesty without love is not honesty at all. There is always some other agenda being attached. And so love is always honest, and if honesty is not applied with love, it is not totally honest honesty. Brutal frankness is not loving. Frankness can still be loving, but not brutal frankness, only told for frankness's sake.

Frankness, as I said, is part of honesty, but it is not a part of love. How is this so? Well, honesty without love is always brutal in its approach. Honesty should never be followed, without love accompanying it. Frankness never contains this love, but is trying to undermine the other person, by pointing out what is seen to be honest truth for the teller, but is never usually

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