It is important that you be true to yourself from the
very depths of your nature. It’s no use to pretend to be what you
are not. Sooner or later your true nature will show itself. So
it’s no use pretending to be what you are not. Just be
yourself. Otherwise your trend is only hypocrisy.
Jesus strongly criticized the hypocrisy of the Jewish
scribes and Pharisees which you can read in the whole chapter 23 of the gospel
of St. Matthew (herewith partly quoted).
“Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You who clean the outside of cup and dish and leave the
inside full of extortion and intemperance. Blind Pharisee! Clean
the inside of cup and dish first so that the outside may become clean as well”
(Mt. 23:25-26).
There’s also a beautiful quotation from William
Shakespeare taken from his play “Hamlet” Act 1, sc.3 where he says as
follows: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses
both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This
above all – to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the
day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing
season this in thee!”
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