Honesty empowers love. One may counter that we are honest because we love. I think this could be true. But one must acknowledge that I can only love out of an honest place. What does it mean to say, “I love?”
For me to speak of “I” is to denote the wholeness of my “I(ness).” One may love from only a part of one’s “I(ness)” (King David’s divided heart). However, one would wish to be loved from the wholeness of another’s “I(ness).”