Dishonesty is something that's much more widespread and deep and has deeper negative consequences than I think. Then I think anybody realizes. And one of the the challenges of learning to see more of what God sees, feel more of what he feels and know more of what he knows is adjusting to the fact, the
realization that everybody struggles with this problem and, and just how deeply most people do and the effects that it has now on the bright side of this, what ends up happening is that people that you might not have noticed before in life, the kinds of people that you might not notice, they end up shining
like a diamond on velvet and it turns out that to, to live without pretense to know who you are and to be accurate with that to be spot on, not think too highly of yourself or too lowly of yourself, to be the same person inside as you are on the outside and to come to know how God sees you and live that
way to live the full measure of your creation, to have an idea of your potential and live up to it. These are exceedingly unusual qualities to have. And if you have them, you become much more than a breath of fresh air to the people who can see it. Because as you come to see these things, basically,
every human interaction you have, it's nearly every human interaction you have is like getting punched in the face and worse than that, you get punched in the face by someone who will invariably be very upset with you. If you react as if you got punched in the face. So you, you gain the ability to see
the lies and see how broad dishonesty actually is because it's not just about saying what you don't, uh, what you know is not true. It's much, much more than that. But, but because people are so self deceived, you know, they'll, they'll act very strange. They'll, they'll be indignant and offended and
everything else. If you call them out on that and say, yo, you just punched me in the face, what's up, let alone punch you back, right? So when you get the gift of knowing someone, because it's like, I don't know, it's like magic glasses where some people shine and some pe most people don't. Um, what
it is is that dishonesty. It, it impedes the Holy Ghost. And when you've lived your life in a way where you've intentionally identified and reduced those impedances in you, you become much more sensitive to the impedances outside of you, namely with other people, but also in your environment, you become
sensitive to things very sensitive, not in a wussy kind of way. I mean, in the literal sense of the word where you have the ability to detect, signal that others can't detect and you, the levels of that signal are going to vary significantly from what other people experience. And so a friend of mine
passed away this morning, Jim West and, uh, I'm not sad that he's gone because he's locked in a good life and you can't ask for anything more than that. But I'm sad that he's gone because uh he's not here anymore and the world was a better place to have at least one guy who was what it seemed, he didn't
pretend to be more and who was a genuinely kind person, not just a nice person because nice people, there's a Venn diagram there between nice and kind and most nice people are fake. Very few people are nice and kind. Um Jim was both but most of that was because he's, he, he generally genuinely uh cared
about people in general, not just specific people. And so last time I saw Jim, uh he came to a talk I gave and he had been quite sick for some time and truth be told we weren't super close. Um The way my life goes, I, I have to focus it on the people that I can help and uh, Jim didn't need me for much
so. Um, but he was at this talk and I was so so happy to see him because I thought I'd never see him again. Cos he had been so sick and here he was so, you know, he gave me a huge hug. I told him how happy I was to see him and he looked great at the time. But, you know, I guess he was still struggling
with some things physically. Um, and now he's, he's not here anymore. I hope, I hope the people who knew him in life don't have any regrets about how they spent their lives with him. That's something that tends to be very difficult when somebody dies and, and funerals can be overtaken by this sense of
regret. Uh That's one reason I hate going to funerals, but it's always a good reminder when people that we knew and cared about when they die. It's a great reminder to make the most out of every moment in life and to, to just pick a specific thing that you're gonna do now that you wouldn't have done
before, like call your mom, hug your kid, whatever it might be and go do it, whatever that is. We are so ignorant about the cascading effects little things can have. And that's one reason why every moment is so precious because we can't see how many times that's gonna echo through the world, but it never
stops. It's like this wind that I can't seem to get away from as I'm trying to make this video for like the 10th time. It, it keeps going, it doesn't stop, it just keeps going and who knows where it's gonna go, right. But we have the ability to emit these things and you can make such a difference in
the world while being a person that might not seem exceptional to every person. I try to say that very carefully cause Jim was the kind of guy that didn't steal the limelight. That wasn't what he was all about. That's one of the things that made him such an exceptional person is that to me, he reminds
me of if you drive from my house to say Sand point somewhere northwest of here, there are these spots along the way where, who knows how some apple tree got in this random crevice on the side of the road. And here it is, this is my most recent road trip. Here it is this giant apple tree chock full of
apples when I've got a whole orchard that barely bore any fruit this year. The weather was really bad where I live. But here's this tree on the side of the road that's better than any of the trees in my orchard. And the people that, that know apples, you know, and like them, they'll pull over and eat
all the apples. And that's how Jim West was and what a beautiful thing to if you could have a different set of eyes for a minute and scan the world and just see so many people who aren't living up to what God gave them. So many people, every single place you look, you see it and it just fills you with
sadness all the time. It, it seeing that not, I mean, it's sadness inside of you but it's not like it's because you're seeing people waste what God has given them. Then you see this gorgeous tree that has no right to be there and is on the side of the road in a crack and it has got all these apples and
the apples are actually good. It's a wonderful thing. And so I think that it would be nice if there were a lot more people like that. Honest people, deep down honest people who took the things that God gave them and made the most out of them and did a fine job. I'm gonna miss him and I hope that I hope