Human beings have a remarkable capacity
to take things that are related to each other and stick them in separate airtight
compartments so they don’t rub against each other and cause them much pain.
We’re all familiar with the man who goes
to church on Sunday morning, believing that he loves God and God’s creation and
his fellow human beings, but who, on Monday morning, has no trouble with his
company’s policy of dumping toxic waste in the local stream. He can do this because
he has religion in one compartment and his business in another… It is a very comfortable
way to operate, but integrity it is not.
The word integrity comes from the same root as integrate. It means to achieve wholeness, which is the opposite of
compartmentalize. Compartmentalization is easy. Integrity is painful. But
without it there can be no wholeness.
-- M. Scott Peck in “Further Along the Road Less Traveled”
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