Celestial Koan

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Frank Honesty and Vulnerability: Kent M Keith

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

Source: Taken from a line in the poem The Paradoxical Commandments which he wrote as an undergraduate at Harvard.

Comment: In 1997, Keith learned that the poem "The Paradoxical Commandments" had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India and, two decades after writing the original poem, Dr. Keith wrote a book of the same title expanding on the themes of the poem: Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World.

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