The Journey For Integrity

An insightful axiom says, “The journey of life is more important than the destination.” For us, life is the journey for integrity and It’s exciting to know that where I am is just a moment or a single event in my life, and not the entire thing. As Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”

The Journey This is not just any journey but the journey of each life; it is personal and I am accountable for it’s effects; I own it. A journey is “a long and often difficult process of personal change and development.” As Henry David Thoreau remarked, “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

For Integrity The journey is not to integrity, as integrity is not a destination we will reach. Instead, it is a journey we take for integrity. The purpose of a meaningful journey is to move toward something worthwhile and the experiences are the lessons for progress, not perfection.

Integrity is not merely a choice for self but to our collective humanness; “the need I can’t fulfill or lay aside”; it’s a state of being one in truth that ‘works for the good’. To live with integrity is trying to always do what’s right whether anyone is watching and rules are the minimum level for us.

I enjoy and value who I am, while being aware of what I’m not and of others, but I often ‘keep my own counsel’. As you get used to going to yourself, rather than to others, you will most likely find the decision-making process a whole lot easier, and a whole lot quicker too. As internal conflict diminishes, there is a growing confidence and joy in being one with yourself, inside and out, and the good in the outside world.

The sum of my three parts: body, mind and spirit, is ‘who’ I am today; it’s ‘where’ I am on my journey toward who I can be.

What the body does is called THE WORK

The mind manages with THE PURPOSE

The spirit leads by THE IMAGE

Every person must do, manage and lead themselves and those for whom they are accountable. Every growing group is also accountable for their processes, purposes and culture, resp.