Honesty & Loyalty Over and Against Expediency

Above all, be honest.

At all times be honest.

Your honesty is not something which can be bought nor negotiated - it must be who you are rather than who you can be. Truth cannot have a price tag with you, for then your honesty is only when it is expedient and not when it is necessary to hold back the darkness in this world. Honesty is not about expediency, nor about being insensitive. Honesty is about being loving to your audience - to love them enough to not allow them to be deceived by a lie, no matter how appealing such lie may be.

And be loyal too.

Do not forsake being loyal.

Your loyalty, as with honesty, cannot be something that is bought or negotiated - loyalty is not a part of a contract but a character of your soul. It must be given without price to pay or favors to be given - it cannot have a price or condition. For upon the moment it is conditioned your loyalty is not loyalty at all but rather a supremacy of expediency. Loyal is who you must be, not who you can be in the proper circumstances.

There could be so much more to say, but honesty and loyalty must be who you are. If you are honest and loyal you shall also be loving and strong - for to tell a hard truth is nonetheless loving, and to stand by someone at a hard time takes strength as well as loyalty. These two entail many other things but must be focused upon for they require these other things. Therefore to be honest and loyal is to be much more that solely honest and loyal.

- Mr. DH