The word integrity has increasing importance in recent years obtained. In the financial crisis and the credit-noise in many places the call for Code of managers was loud.
The importance of integrity, I was asked this week by a simple but very clear picture again aware of: Our garden was a flourishing of art. Six flower pots together chic set and held together by a wooden stick. From the flowering of art now just a pile of rubble is left. What happened? Without that we would have noticed, the wooden stick was rotten; it was rotten inside.
lazy securities and rotten wood bars are one thing. Something much more significant it is when our personal inner life is rotten. Beautiful artwork and expensive securities are worthless if they are lazy "inside of it." Similarly with the man who cultivates his inner life or not something pretending what is not. You could say he has built on sand.
Our lives may look for other chic, but if we neglect our inner life for too long, we must be careful that our life does not end like our thriving art: an unsightly mess.
integrity on Wikipedia : A man of integrity who lives in the knowledge that his personal beliefs, standards and values expressed in his behavior. Personal integrity is defined as loyalty to himself. The opposite of integrity is incorruptible, that is not in its behavior to be guided by internal values and principles, but from external threats and temptations.