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                   %EXCLUSIVELY SERVING TWO MASTERS 810228

     It  has  been  said that a person can not  serve  two
masters.   This is true if the person serves "exclusivity"
as the primary master.   What if the person does not serve
"exclusivity"   as the primary master,  and if in addition
the  person seeks to serve two masters,  neither of  which
serves "exclusivity"  as a master?   Is it still a "law of
nature" that it is impossible to serve two masters?  Is it
a   different  question  than  "Can  a  person  serve  two
masters?" In what way are the two questions different?  To
answer this last question may be enlightening.

     Perhaps  what  is true is that it  is  impossible  to
serve   two  masters  each  of  which  demands   exclusive
dedication,   or  if  the  servant  has  internalized  the
requirement upon self that self be exclusive in dedication
to  one  master.    The impossibility may originate  in  a
dedication  to  exclusivity on the part of  master  and/or
servant.

     Any dedication to balance  is  lost  when  there is a
dedication  to exclusivity.   People who are dedicated  to
exclusivity  tend  to be unbalanced people,  for  to  them
being  balanced involves serving more that one master,  so
it  is  impossible for them to achieve meaningful  balance
and  the  personal  integrity which flows  from  living  a
balanced  life.   Exclusivity as the primary master offers
no guidance or motivation towards living a balanced  life,
and is in fact antithetical to doing so.   The person  who
is dedicated to exclusivity becomes the victim of whatever
narrow  focus  s/he happen to be lead into  by  accidental
circumstances.     Such  a  person  has  no  basis  for  a
transcendent evaluation of competing  claims for exclusive
dedication.

     The  person who is dedicated to Love and Love's  work
of promoting dialogue  knows ways of  living balance lives
which are not entrapping.   A  dedication to the promotion
of  dialogue  offers  a way out  of  exclusivity  and  the
unbalanced  lives which exclusivity occasions.

                                                                                                                               
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