K Haridas Nair from Malaysia looks at the idea of absolute honesty from an Eastern perspective and finds that it is connected to the will to act in a broader sense. This is the first of a series in which we look at core moral values from an Eastern perspective.

The headline in The Times, 8 September, was startling enough: ‘Don’t dismiss dishonesty, it can be virtuous’. How could dishonesty be virtuous, I wondered?

"The joys of coming clean to the taxman" was the heading of Graham Turner's article in the Sunday Times, published on 7 June 2009, with the sub-heading "Former BBC journalist found unexpected benefits in kind when he admitted fiddling his expenses". Turner's experiment with honesty came after he encountered Initiatives of Change (then known as Moral Re-Armament), a relationship that has continued over the years.

Mahendra Shah

To me, integrity means being what you are,regardless of circumstances or environment. We suffer from conflict between how others evaluate us and what we think of ourselves. This interferes with our self-image. We confuse what we are and what we want to be with what people want us to be.

Sandra Crathern from Worthing tells how she made amends for money she had stolen

The German Helmut Rosskopf has proved that it is possible to be moral, spiritual and successful in business.

Try Honesty, it works!
Sarla Kapadia insisted on collecting payment by cheque only for the flat she was trying to sell. “Impossible!” said some friends and relatives. Or was it?

Step One to Remaking the World

A change of job gives you an opportunity to reflect on life—as does a New Year.

‘It grew out of a concern for the climate and times we live in,’ says Upper School Head Todd Huebsch.