integrity...

"The potential for loss of soul -
to one degree or another -
is the affliction of a society that as a collective
has lost its sense of the holy,
of a culture that values everything else
above the spiritual.
We live in such a spiritually impoverished culture -
and in such a time.
Loss of soul, to one degree or another,
is a constant teasing possibility.
We are invited at every corner to hedge on the truth,
indulge outselves, act as if our words and actions
have no ultimate consequence,
make an absolute of the material world,
and treat the spiritual world
as if it were some kind of frothy, angelic fantasy.
In such a world the soul struggles for survival;
in such a world a man can lose his own soul
and have the whole culture support him,
and in such a world, conversely,
the light of a single, great soul that lives in integrity
can truly illumine the world."
- Daphne Rose Kingma