Hypocrisy doesn’t result from having double standards but pretending you have one standard when no one does.

We don't become hypocrites by sometimes being dishonest, unreceptive or ungiving...but by pretending that one never should be.

As if it’s possible to live by these impossible moral principles rather than admitting that like we’re struggling with moral dilemmas, deciding where to be honest & dishonest, where to be receptive & unreceptive, where to be giving & un-giving. That’s the work we’re all doing.

Attacking each other with one-size-fits-all moral rules is how we become hypocrites; defending ourselves when the rules come back to bite us is how we reinforce our hypocrisy.

We don’t even bother to wonder since all we’re trying to do is defend ourselves as abiding by laws we don’t abide by, except when they help us. We declare ourselves committed to some virtue and then just slide whenever we want... in and out of that category.

Honesty is a virtue. Dishonesty is a vice. But when I don’t tell you the truth, I am being honestly tactful. When you don’t tell me the truth you’re dishonest !!

Always remember....Counting other people’s sin doesn’t make you a saint !!

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