One must set the children the right example. To be what one would like them to be. Giving them the example of equality of temper which makes children free from fear, for what makes children deceitful and untruthful, and even cunning, is the fear of being punished. If they feel secure, they will hide nothing and one will then be able to help them to be loyal and honest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/10-april-1957#p5</ref>
=What is Honesty?=
==It means Non-Deception==
Truthfulness means first truth-speaking and to keep the speech in harmony with the deepest truth of which one is conscious.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p50</ref>
One must know the Truth- be in touch with the truth of things, not merely speak the truth as his mind knows it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p6</ref>
==Relation of Honesty with Other Qualities==
Honesty, straightforwardness, loyalty and sincerity are closely related it is extremely difficult for someone to be perfectly sincere without being loyal and honest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p33</ref>
===Courage===
There is no greater courage than to be always truthful. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/courage#p12</ref>
Truth is the characteristic of an upright man, the stamp of his nature. Love of truth makes him face all fears. One speaks as he should, no matter what happens to him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/02/sincerity#p21</ref>
==Honesty in Parts of the Being==
===Physical Body===
Falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the CONSCIOUSNESS. The falsity of the consciousness has material consequences and that's what illness is! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref>
===Vital Being===
Vital honesty: not to allow our sensations and desires to falsify our judgement and determine our action. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/honesty#p5</ref>
===Mental being===
Mental honesty: one does not try to deceive others or to deceive oneself.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/honesty#p6</ref>
It is a mind that does not attempt to deceive itself. And in fact it is not an “attempt”, for it succeeds very well in doing it!.
'''Lack of Mental Honesty'''
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 of a very fine little explanation, and as long as one is not obliged to show it, one hides it. That is “lack of mental honesty”. All these things are habitual, automatic, you are not even aware of them; When you discover this, you become aware that you are living constantly in a… “self-deception.” <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/21-may-1958#p1</ref>
==The Need for Complete Truthfulness==
One must insist on a complete truthfulness in the whole being which will refuse to accept any denial of what the psychic discrimination sees or any affirmation or consent anywhere to what it disapproves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p6</ref>
==Truth and Divine Truthfulness==
Truth does not insist on a blind adherence to the spoken word—it demands that a man shall cleave to the principle of Truth in things only and in certain cases the principle of Truth would demand that he should break his vow and not keep it. If a man pledges himself to something that is against the principle of Truth... it is not Truth to keep that pledge—for it would be a pledge to follow falsehood and truth cannot be rooted in falsehood, <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/misunderstanding-the-mothers-words#p19</ref>
==Honesty Indispensable Basis of Yoga==
The indispensable basis of our Yoga is sincerity, honesty, unselfishness, disinterested consecration to the work to be done, nobility of character and straightforwardness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/no-politics#p37</ref>
=Common Misunderstandings about Truthfulness=