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Are You Serious?
People often ask me, “Are you serious?” I guess, because my thinking and behaviour seem so strange to them, they doubt my sincerity. Or they think they hear sarcasm. Yes, when I am being completely up front. But to act other than how I do would be genuinely disingenuous. So, I will ask you friends.…
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Living Contiguously
Being authentic or being ourselves is different from being sincere? Actually, it’s different from being sincere as it’s publicly defined, yes, but it’s the only real sincerity possible. True sincerity is living contiguously with your authentic self, even if that doesn’t fit any codes set down by any other person or group of persons. Any…
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Key To True Strength
Sincerity is the key to true strength. There is application in this. We have, at our hearts, principles on which we live. The violation of which would lead us to believe we would lose our minds, and in fact, we very often do. Thus military veterans who would have been good fathers and husbands, but…
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Sincerity of Darker Things
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Am I Sincere?
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Our Scattered Self
In today’s era, it seems sincerity is in short supply, but why? Any thoughts? Which culture are we talking about? That’s true. It does differ, but not so much as to make any one culture stand out entirely as more sincere than others. Too much politeness? Yes, that contributes, but so does the aggrandizement of…
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Finding Center
On sincerity, one’s personality can seem an obscure thing. The product of pointlessly obtuse reasoning even, but the insane likewise have personalities, as do the brain damaged. They have the state of being a “person”, and a way in which they function, regardless of any external judgements regarding their life or their level of being.…
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Being Ourselves
I find nothing more interesting than sincerity, and I tend to ignore anything other than that, because sincerity requires no form of embellishment. I have a guest who reads something into everything I say. Suspecting you of deceit, they deceive themselves, and the shrewd person who won’t be tricked is always tricked. The person who…
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Test Of Sincerity
Category: Sincerity
You will fail. No matter what, you will fail. No matter what you intend to do, you will do it wrong. But you are not, I repeat NOT, a failure. The key to sincerity is to realize this. The sincere person is not unfailing, they are unfaltering.
How often do people say “I don’t know what made me do that!”? It comes from a common fiction that your powers of reason are who you are, and that a “well reasoned” argument is a sincere one. It’s an absurd notion, but still very commonly held. With very strong reason, I can give an argument for why it would be appropriate for me to torture myself to death, at least in theory. It isn’t our powers of reason that keeps us from doing things like that.
Sincerity is being true to yourself, which leads to knowing yourself.
“As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you” Grenville Kleiser (American author 1868-1953)
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself” James Russell Lowell (American Poet, Critic, Essayist, Editor and Diplomat, 1819-1891)