Integrity

"Integrity is an unending process of letting our inner experience and our outer experience complete each other, in spite of our very human lapses." Mark Nepo

Nepo is talking about being true to ourselves and aware of others.  At the core, each of us is a very good person.  Sometimes that goodness is shaped and distorted by treatment from others, especially when we are children.  To live with integrity means to be true to oneself.  It also means that we experience other people in their wholeness.  Too often we numb ourselves with our lists to-do, our mental gymnastics, our worries -- and we do not see the beauty in ourselves and others.  Today let us be aware of our own inner beauty and wholeness, and that of all other people.