Sincerity

Key Claims

• Sincerity is how love discovers the hidden opportunities for growth and service.
• Sincerity is how love puts order into priorities by acknowledging duties.
• Love regards the whole, while fear regards an aspect of a thing.
• Love is disordered when a partial good is prioritized over the whole good.
• Partial goods are partial images of success.
• Partial goods are outcomes that are ultimately outside of a person’s control.
• Partial goods lead to fear of failure to obtain.
• All anxiety comes from prioritizing a partial good over which one has no control over the whole good, which one does have control over.
• The pursuit of partial goods is always a response to self-concepts.
• Partial goods are safety behaviors, meant to keep one safe (= happy) but unable to do so.
• Pursuit of fulfillment through partial goods turns self-concepts into self-fulfilling prophecies.
• Sincerity necessary to uncover the pursuit of absolutized partial goods.
• Pain of sincerity habituates over time.
• Only those with a growth mindset can find delight in sincerity.
• Love does away with counterfeit images of happiness because love itself is the image of fulfillment and happiness.
• Love deals with the whole of life, ordering everything to love.
• Love intensifies when it is itself properly ordered to objective duties.
• With regard to those we love, we grow by serving them, and serve them by growing.
• The best gift we can give others is the best version of ourselves.