Lying
Sam Harris. Honest people are a shelter
Harris takes the smallest case — the white lie, told to spare someone — and shows the bill.
Every lie splits the world in two: the way things are, and the version you handed over. From then on you maintain both. That upkeep is the price, and it grows.
Honest people become a shelter. You know they won’t say one thing to your face and another behind your back, so around them you can stop guarding yourself.
An essay, one sitting. Read it.