Making Sense | Sam Harris

Don’t lie. Or if you’re going to lie, don’t lie to yourself. The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. We don’t want to look at the role our own behaviors play in our failings (in our successes, sure), so we tend, by my observation, to claim responsibility for our wins and blame the losses on conditions beyond our control or on the fa

The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.