mouth with derision and sharpness.
When he came back, his mother grabbed him again, and got right in his face. Her words this time: “you go back and you apologize as though you meant it.”
How’s that for a set of instructions for life? Doesn’t matter what you really feel, just fake it.
Marcus01 wrote this amazing bit of insight:
“I’ve always been pretty honest. Honest even when it was inconvenient to be so, even when it got me in trouble. I’ve left a job where my integrity was being challenged. However there were exceptions: I would tell the little white lies. I could also be manipulative.
“One morning about five years ago I was casting about for an excuse to cancel a commitment that afternoon. My sense of personal responsibility had recently evolved to the point where I was loathe to make excuses, but still, there were exceptions. I put those thoughts aside and picked up a pen and paper to jot some stuff down, when I spontaneously wrote down the first thing that came into my head. I wrote: “I am impeccable. I live my life impeccably.” (Could that have come from my subconscious?)
“Suddenly all thoughts of excuses vanished and I looked forward to making my appointment, and more importantly I knew on a very deep level that I could never again make excuses for myself!
“Impeccable is taking integrity to a whole other level. I can’t explain the mechanism involved, but when I put those words down on paper it created a powerful experience — a profound consciousness shift.
“I remember reading decades ago that Carlos Castaneda’s mentor Don Juan stressed that a “man of power lives impeccably” — or something like that. I didn’t fully understand it at the time. I think I