For a long time, I struggled to understand what the word meant...
I just didn't get it.
It was too amorphous, too vague,
and now I do.
In fact, as I continue to grow older,
INTEGRITY is possibly ALL I want...
The reason that I am passionate about HARMONY,
is because HARMONY speaks not only to who I am,
but to what I believe to be NECESSARY in the world.
Every DAY is an opportunity to move our life forward -
one step closer.... TO ALIGNMENT...
In fact, ALIGNMENT is probably the word I relate INTEGRITY most to...
ALIGNMENT of our
spirituality,
physicality,
philosophy,
values,
behaviors,
decisions...
If we are paying attention,
as we grow up,
we grow less tolerant,
more aware,
more demanding
for integrity in our lives...
Sometimes I want integrity so much,
it hurts...
It unsettles me
I want it all to make sense... desperately...
I want to tune out all that doesn't matter, all that is NOT me in my life.
And, then we introduce others - and our integrity must be balanced with their integrity.
Which is why ALL intimate relationships are a profound challenge and gift...
because they require us to reach a shared integrity - with our spouse, with our children, with our work...
It becomes more complicated as we get clearer on what we want,
and we get more mindful of the complexities of the compromises, the trade-offs.
INTEGRITY abhors trade-offs, and compromises in life are real and necessary...
So then it forces us to weed out one more time ALL THAT DOES NOT MATTER -
because the LESS that matters,
the MORE we understand that VERY little truly matters to our integrity -
the less that matters - THE GREATER THE INTEGRITY THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE IN OUR LIVES.
It's hard to let go of the noise... the little stuff... to RELEARN who we are and tune out the noise.
Every day we get another opportunity -
NOT as much to be happy,
but to MAKE LIFE MAKE SENSE,
to live with INTEGRITY, with ALIGNMENT,
to bring to LIFE WHO WE ARE...
in how we live,
how we love,
how we work,
how we relate,
and in all aspects of who we are.
INTEGRITY is possibly the greatest force driving us...
A desire and a hunger for it...
And, to achieve it,
you must define it...
and, to achieve it,
you must fight for it...
with all that you are
in every moment...
What is the INTEGRITY you seek?
WHO are you?
WHO am I?
We are every aspect of our lives,
in every moment...
And, I want it to make sense.
I want to be TRUE to me
and WHO I am
in all that I do.
I get it now...
in harmony,
Nestor