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Mental honesty: one does not try to deceive others or to deceive oneself.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/honesty#p6</ref>
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Correct behaviour—peaceful, honest. From all points of view, not only materially, but morally, mentally. Mental honesty is one of the most difficult things to achieve. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-awakened-one-the-buddha#p31</ref>
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Mental sincerity: the essential condition for integral honesty.
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The mind has a power of deception in its own regard which is incalculable. It clothes its desires and preferences with all kinds of wonderful intentions and it hides its trickeries, resentments and disappointments under the most favourable appearances.
To overcome all that, you must have the fearlessness of a true warrior, and an honesty and a straightforwardness, a sincerity that never fail. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-mind#p18</ref>
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When one begins to see that one has made a mistake, the first movement of the mind is to push it into the background and to put a cloak in front of it, the cloak of a very fine little explanation, and as long as one is not obliged to show it, one hides it. And this is what I call "lack of mental honesty".<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/21-may-1958#p6</ref>
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''Q. Sweet Mother, what does “mental honesty” mean exactly?''
Things will be self-evident, Truth will shine through all forms, the possibility of error will disappear.’’<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/21-may-1958#p1</ref>
==The Need for Complete Honesty==