Completely Honest

Jung had a tremendous humor

And he knew

That nobody can be completely honest

You will try and have a great deal of success

Exploring your motivation and your dark unconscious depths

That nobody can be completely honest

You will try and have a great deal of success

But there will be a certain point at which you will say

"Well I've had enough of that," you know?

And do you see how in a strange

Way there's a certain sanity in that?

When a person indulges in a certain

Kind of duplicity of deception

There is something, you all laughed when I said that,

There's something humorous about it

And this humor is [a] very funny thing

Basically humor is an attitude of laughter about ones self

There is malicious humor, which is laughing at other people

But real deep humor

Is laughter at ones self

Now why fundamentally do you laugh about yourself?

What makes you laugh about yourself?

Isn't it because you know that there is a big difference

Between what goes on the outside and what goes on the inside?

That if I hint

You see, that you're inside is the opposite of your outside

It makes people laugh, if I don't do it unkindly

If I get up in the attitude of a preacher

And say you're a bunch of miserable sinners

And you ought to be different

Nobody laughs

But if I say "Well, after all, boys will be boys,

And girls will be girls,"

We all know, then, people laugh

That nobody can be completely honest

You will try and have a great deal of success

Exploring your motivation and your dark unconscious depths

That nobody can be completely honest

You will try and have a great deal of success

But there will be a certain point at which you will say

"Well I've had enough of that," you know?

Now, you see what's happening when we do that?

Now, I passed you around a lot of embroidery to look at

Before we started

And I'm perfectly sure that you got the point

That there's a big difference between the front and the back

In some forms of embroidery the back is

Very different from the front

Because people take shortcuts

In the front everything is orderly,

And it is supposed to be kinda messy on the back side

See, which side will you wear?

You got to be sure you get the front in the front,

And the back in the back

The back has all the little tricks in it, all the shortcuts

All the low down that people don't acknowledge

And it's exactly the same with the way we live

You know, like sweeping the dust under the carpet

In a hurry just before the guests come

I mean we do ever so many things like that

And if you don't do it,

If you don't think you do it, and you think

"Well, really my embroidery is the same on both sides."

See? Well you're deceiving yourself

Because what you're doing is you're taking

The shortcuts in another dimension

Which you're keeping out of consciousness

Everybody takes the shortcuts, everybody plays tricks

Everybody has in himself an element of duplicity, of deception

Because you see from this point of view that I'm discussing,

Where the web is the trap

To be is to deceive

That nobody can be completely honest

You will try and have a great deal of success

Exploring your motivation and your dark unconscious depths

That nobody can be completely honest

You will try and have a great deal of success

But there will be a certain point at which you will say

"Well I've had enough of that," you know?

To be – is to deceive

To be – is to deceive