Impeccability vs. Integrity

Integrity, as the word is generally used, refers to a standard of conduct that is universal and can be applied to everyone. Impeccability means you are acting upon the highest truth or perception available to you.

Because we are exploring the unknown through our actions on a moment by moment basis, our perception and interpretation of truth (the way the purpose of the Infinite should unfold) is developing accordingly. Today’s level of perception is not yesterday’s and our impeccability will be based on the various levels of changing perception.

Often we berate ourselves because of past actions we view as mistakes. This is one of the primary causes of guilt. Guilt causes us to want to avoid it through selective perception, which creates internal dialogue and traps us in the mind. The guilt is especially strong if others suffered from our blindness. But everyone enters our lives at the exact right time to receive from us the gifts and mirrors we bring to help them solve that portion of the mystery they contracted with the Infinite to solve.

On the other hand, to act unimpeccably is to be un-integrated in that the perception does not match the action. This could stem from either deliberately acting contrary to what we know to be the highest choice or not being truthful with ourselves about where the action originated.

Universal integrity, on the other hand, is supportive of indwelling life. It is the source of actions that do not warp the web of the interconnectedness of life. It is the ultimate standard by which the conduct of man can be measured, no matter what belief systems or creeds he espouses. It is the highest form of honor a human being can live by. It leaves no karma and excludes none from its benefit for it holds the greater vision of the oneness of life. All benefit equally forms the actions of one who walks in universal integrity.

One who walks in impeccability, living always his or her highest truth, must progress rapidly in unfolding their personal awareness. The perception of such a person increases as the horizon forever recedes. At first, occasional flashes of universal integrity might occur, but eventually it will become a way of life. For impeccability has to lead to the impersonal life where the greater good is always the first consideration, until finally the ego is stilled and God-consciousness is reached.

Excerpted from Journey to the Heart of God