The Most Beautiful Flower Of All Is Honesty
Honest people are frank, they are genuine and they enjoy that happiness that gives coherence between thoughts and actions. In them there is nothing imposed, only a clarity of mind and heart where the truth always takes the reins, and where humility is the wind that guides and pushes the sails of your conscience. This is honesty.
Whoever chooses to live in this scenario of emotional and psychological authenticity knows that they will have to pay a price. The first surcharge is obvious: honesty is always frank and said frankness brings more than one side effect to those who are not used to a hairless language and a heart that detests lies.
The second surcharge, and perhaps the least known, is the one that refers to our inner world. Being honest requires self-exploration to understand our limitations and make contact with that private corner where our vulnerability hides. We all have flaws, black holes, and hypersensitive areas. The honest person is very aware of it.
On the other hand, we cannot forget that this psychological dimension is also an important social value. Beyond seeing it as an essential tool as well as valuable for our personal growth, it is also an engine capable of energizing our well-being as individuals within a social context.
We all deserve an honest salary, a job based on honesty and even a political class rooted in the same principle. Thus, and in view of the fact that the great changes occur through the small shocks, let us put this value into action ourselves from our personal universes. Worth.
Honest people are “psychonauts”
Astronauts, as we already know, explore the confines of space, they are discoverers of other worlds and inveterate onlookers for everything that opens up beyond our precious little blue planet. Well, on the opposite side, there would be the psychonauts. They are people who deepen with courage and graceful skill those inner, intimate and at the same time complex sections such as their emotional universes and their psychological constellations.
Honest people are happier because they have sanitized many of those personal abysses where indecision and that voracious fear once reigned that made them captive to half truths or complete lies. They are profiles that have also learned to be critical of themselves, who tolerate their flaws without punishing themselves, who listen to that internal commander who pushes them to be a little better every day and every moment.
. None of us can blame the chaff in someone else’s eye if we don’t sweep up our own homes first. All this explains why, as several studies reveal, people who practice honesty enjoy better health and a more authentic feeling of happiness and well-being. The key, without a doubt, is in this exercise of self-knowledge.
Being honest with ourselves often implies being like that spiritual warrior who reveals to us how we are in our present moment. It reveals to us our powerlessness and our unprotected areas, our darkness, but at the same time it guides us to heal ourselves and thus allow us to have a fuller and stronger vision of ourselves. Thus, we will continue to walk with the truth ahead, but also with humility.
Once all the young women were in the courtyard of the palace, the prince placed a seed in the palm of each one of them. He told them that he would meet them again in 6 months. The one who brought him the most beautiful flower would become his wife.
Our young protagonist returned home happy. She was a great gardener, everything her hands touched blossomed dramatically. However, as the weeks and months passed, nothing sprouted from the ground. Her mother returned once more to recommend that she forget about the prince, however, she told herself that even when she came empty-handed and without a flower, she would show up again for the appointment … Even if it was just to see one more time the man she loved.
When the 6 months passed and the young women met in the palace,. How had they done it? The young woman wept silently as she looked at the prince attending and appreciating each one of those flowers. Until suddenly, he reached her and took her delicately by the hand.
“I will marry this woman,” he said in a happy voice. The young woman had no words, and when the other girls asked him why, he was firm in his words. “All the seeds that I offered you were sterile. Only this young woman has brought me the most beautiful flower: that of HONESTY ”.
To conclude, as this beautiful story has let us see, being honest, in reality, responds to an act of integrity, courage and personal maturity. Virtues all of them that we must dedicate to germinate in our day-to-day life.
Images courtesy of Anne Julie Aubry
