July: Transparency

2023

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain - even if only momentarily - a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.

Don Richard Riso (1946 – 2012) USA

2022

Find out who you are and don't be afraid to be.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 -1948) India

2021

If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.

Sheldon B. Kopp (1929 – 1999) USA

2020

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner (1897 – 1962) USA

2019

Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.

Gautama Buddha (566 b.C. – 486 b.C.) Nepal

2018

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson (1773 – 1835) USA

2017

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albania

2016

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Dalai Lama (1935 - ) China

2015

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 -1948) India

2014

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, a sincere life.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828- 1889) England

2013

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

Vera Farmiga (1973) USA

2012

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Joseph Barber (1757 – 1811) England

2011

What we see is not what we see. It is what we are.

Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935) Portugal