The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self

by Martha Beck

This book, as you may have gleaned from the title, is all about integrity. But I don’t mean this in a moralizing sense. The word integrity has taken on a slightly prim, judgmental nuance in modern English, but the word comes from the Latin integer, which simply means “intact.” To be in integrity is to be one thing, whole and undivided. When a plane is in integrity, all its millions of parts work together smoothly and cooperatively. If it loses integrity, it may stall, falter, or crash. There’s no judgment here. Just physics.

It’s in the very first part of the book and definitly also an example that totally resonated with me. Integrity is just a state.

It takes wisdom and maturity to use anger for positive change without becoming mindlessly violent.