{"id":23674,"date":"2013-01-14T19:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=23674"},"modified":"2013-01-14T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:19:41","slug":"become-transparent-show-the-world-you-walk-your-talk-and-when-you-dont-what-went-wrong-show-the-world-your-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/become-transparent-show-the-world-you-walk-your-talk-and-when-you-dont-what-went-wrong-show-the-world-your-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Become transparent. Show the world you walk your talk\u2014and when you don\u2019t, what went wrong. Show the world your flaws."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-23306\" title=\"WayneWirsB&amp;N-010 cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/WayneWirsBN-010-cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Spiritual brother <a href=\"http:\/\/waynewirs.com\">Wayne Wirs <\/a>writes: &#8220;Personally, I don\u2019t want to live my life as a hypocrite\u2014or worse, die as one\u2014so I strive for transparency in my blog. I don\u2019t want to preach A while living B. \u00a0If you consider yourself a spiritual student or authority, even if you have no interest in becoming a teacher, I strongly urge you to start a blog, or if you have one, to intersperse your \u201cteaching posts\u201d with personal posts. You\u2019ll be amazed at how humbling and eye opening the experience can be. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">Become transparent. Show the world you walk your talk\u2014and when you don\u2019t, what went wrong. Show the world your flaws.&#8221;<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">&#8220;But the most powerful aspect about blogging about your personal life is that it throws your actions right back in your face. Personal blogging makes you very conscious of the difference between your theories\u2026 and your actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">Personal blogging forces you to live true. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">And to live true\u2014isn\u2019t that what a spiritual life is all about?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/become-transparent-show-the-world-you-walk-your-talk-and-when-you-dont-what-went-wrong-show-the-world-your-flaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Become transparent. 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I don\u2019t want to preach A while living B. \u00a0If you consider yourself a spiritual student or authority, even if you have no interest in becoming a teacher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23676,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674\/revisions\/23676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}