Love and Its Meaning in the World

[Question about white lies: Concealing something out of love, a white lie, is always a very complicated act. A white lie out of love may be a necessity; at first it may seem like a good deed, but in a very complicated way it creates a bond. Through the white lie, we have become karmically connected to the person concerned, and indeed we have connected ourselves to their weakness. We will have something to do with them again later. We will have to tell them the truth later. We will have to compensate for this later through a rather unpleasant truth that we have to tell them. It is good that this is so, because if we are forced to tell a white lie, it is already karmic, and therefore selfish, because even as a white lie, a white lie is a selfish act; it has nothing to do with a true act of love. For a little bit of cleverness has always been part of a white lie. It does not happen solely out of a decision made out of love. Spiritual science shines into even the smallest and finest parts of the human heart.]