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Integrity means wholeness, in maths it means a non fractional number, a number that has no fractional part but it can be more than one so it's not the same as unity.
But in human terms?
Integrity means wholeness, as I said, but it also means unity, one, single, and not simply not having a fractional part as in maths but only being whole as in unified.
The mistake people make is to think that if they sell-off a little part of their integrity it won't matter because it's only a little bit, sorry but that's a cop-out and deep down they know it.
Either you've got it or you haven't. People don't lack integrity; either they are integrated, they have integrity or they don't and aren't.
Many, most, perhaps all, politicians and police officers, especially the more senior ranking and the senior people in grandiose big business and secret power organisations and government set-ups who claim this quality for themselves make a mockery of it's real meaning.
And what is that real meaning? It is the quality of mind, of thinking, which doesn't divide and split to accomodate double-standards. It is an absence of duality and duplicity. It is what the Roman Empire admired as 'constancy', a consistent, reliable mode of thought which is resolute and fixed in attitude and philosophy against all attempts and temptations to divide itself.
It's wholeness - of mind, of thinking. It is not the same as single-mindedness or narrow-mindedness or closed-mindedness but is the opposite if anything. Single-mindedness suggests a blinkered view. People with integrity are far from being blinkered in their outlook.
It is a feature or failing or strong tendency of man to split his own mind and for others to try and split it for him if he refuses. You can see it with five year olds, as I did at that age. But it is not the same as splitting the personality, a phenomenon produced when severe trauma is experienced -- that is something else entirely. Integrity is under our conscious control. It is a self discipline and a basic moral pre-requisite to right-mindedness and is superior to the basket of moralities (so-called) that the religions and religious people deal in -- usually because they don't have a clue about it's meaning, value or even of it's existence!
It's why our institutional systems purport to having a set of standards - and all the while they are, mostly, in reality, just as it were, almost a kind of tongue-in-cheek set of standards that no one of any seniority treats as real other than to give it lip service. If this isn't the split mind in action then why don't they fix the standards to match the reality? Because it is accepted as normal.
We are now very much in that mode in the UK and in the USA.
It's why the UK's prime miniister just converted to catholicism promptly after leaving office and a few months later (May 2008) has embarked on a religious project or quest.
Puzzled about that at all?
He is trying to find a way to undo what he has done (or at least closed his eyes to) as PM.
And he can't.
Few could in his position (in my view, because the system is designed that way).
The presence of integrity is easy to destroy, to split the human mind is easy and simple and it happens enough to be ubiquitous, the norm, the rule.
By Paul E. Coughlin
SaneThinking.com
20 August 2008
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