This is old news but I read a wonderful piece on honesty earlier today (which will get its own post later) which inspired me.
You should know you're in a good, mostly-happy place when you don't have any lies to tell -- because you've already told every truth there is to tell. You know you're in the right frame of mind when you are honest with people, and get rid of your petty, manipulative (and you KNOW you are manipulative) self. You stop being manipulative because: 1) it won't work: you're clear as a glass, and 2) because you see a greater value in honesty.
We're no monks, and Buddha lied too. Silence instead of truth is good, if that is strictly to protect people's long-term safety and stability. Speaking aloud what's in your mind is a great idea -- you start seeing the world as a wonderful place where you don't have to spend the majority of your time figuring out reality by collating different reported versions of it. This is not even philosophy.
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