Honesty is not authenticity
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Honesty is only one ingredient of authenticity. Authenticity is something more than honesty. Let me give you the difference between the authenticity and honesty. For example, if you are angry, and if you express directly to that person - 'I am angry with you' - it is honesty. But that is not authenticity. Authenticity means, two beings really understand each other, where even anger will not happen. Honesty is socially good quality. Authenticity is spiritual quality. Don't mistake honesty for authenticity.
See, when a husband is lying to the wife, there is neither honesty nor authenticity. Husband telling the truth to the wife - that he is a womanizer - is honesty. Husband living just as husband without another woman is authenticity. So, when each person is completely living his or her role, it is authentic. Revealing the failure is honesty, but not authenticity. Honesty means talking about the problem. Authenticity means living the solution.
Honesty is a foolish substitute to authenticity. The very idea of honesty is built on your ego. When you are caught by honesty, it is like marrying an English philosophy teacher. Just by words, she will boil you! This honesty demands or tries to torture the other person. Honesty is just based on facts or figures, which are not the truth of life. Authenticity is built on cosmic understanding. Honesty is living the versions of truth giving to you by society. Authenticity is living truths built by yourself.
