The body’s reaction to recognizing truth is relaxation, a literal, involuntary release of muscle tension.

Of all the strategies and skills I’ve ever learned, the ones that actually work are those that help people see where they’ve abandoned their own deep sense of truth and followed some other set of directives.

listening to our inner teacher is the most important skill we need to follow the way of integrity.

“I thought working hard and providing for my family was the right thing, but I feel so empty.” A few of these people are clinically depressed or physically sick. But mostly, they’re just lost.

never experiencing the joyful ease that comes with full integrity.

At the heart of climbing Mount Delectable is what psychologists call “social comparison theory.” It means that we tend to measure our own well-being not by how we feel, but by how our lives compare to other people’s.

Over and over, we’d talked about the fact that he was happiest doing simple things, like hiking.

Both had split themselves by aspiring to do things that, at another level, they knew they hated.

Everything in and around us is negatively affected when we lose integrity.