VITRUE IS BEAUTY


 

Now this may interest you, if you’re a good thinker or someone given to honest feedback or reflection.

Don’t be fooled by a person’s charm and charisma.

Don’t also be fooled by your own charm, charisma, gifts, talents, skills, abilities or charismatic personality. 

Be grateful for them. Be confident in them.

Use or deploy them appropriately and adequately to the fullness of their purpose and power.

Yet, note this cardinal fact and critical point: 

The obvious presence of these qualities, though great qualities, do not necessarily indicate or imply the coexisting presence of character or virtue.

The same thing with competence and intelligence.

These are highly important ingredients for success.

However, competence without character can lead to ultimate ruin or destruction of self or others.

A smart person who is mean, untrustworthy or even secretly vindictive and sabotaging is not a great candidate or choice for true companionship.

Unless you are relating sparingly with a person of vile character, you will get to fully experience this.

We have a lot of intelligent people and competent professionals who are ethically challenged.

At the opposite end of pleasant amazement, I am shocked to find so many mentally robust, verbally articulate and socially versatile individuals who are unethical, unfair, unjust and unable to be trusted.

Folks who are easily triggered to spite or sabotage.

Read that line again and understand what was said.

The most dangerous are those who have outwardly exciting, charismatic, charming, endearing and nice personas but who inwardly are subtle snitches, saboteurs, slanderers, sadists, or simply spies.

People whose characters and natures are indeed grossly lacking in psychological maturity, empathy, emotional intelligence, financial integrity, honesty, truthfulness, tolerance, fairness, goodness, good conscience, courtesy, and respect for people.

Imagine entrusting your health to a competent and qualified doctor who loathes you, who has no good conscience, who is not fair and just, or not faithful and accountable to the ethics of his profession.

Imagine confiding in a business associate, a work colleague or a professional mentor who is fantastic on the job but is secretly envious of your recent career growth—imagine letting them in on sensitive details of your private life, that make you vulnerable to them. That’s social and professional suicide. 

A person or organization that does not uphold core elements of character in their culture and values system cannot be a good or wholesome entity.

As beauty without character is ugly, so intelligence without integrity is truly unhealthy and unworthy.

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