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%ACTING CREATIVELY WITH INTEGRITY-2 850225
Curiosity is the teasing of a subconscious challenge;
a teasing to resolve a conflict due to a cognitive
dissonance, a conflict between two different views of
reality. Curiosity is a challenge to decide how reality
really is, to integrate views.
Reconciliation is the resolving of a misunderstanding
or conflict which has lead to personal alienation. It is
the integration of people torn apart by different
conceptions of reality and of ideals for the guidance
of relationships. Reconciliation is acting creatively to
bring integrity in personal relationships.
Forgiveness is a step toward reconciliation and
restoration of personal and communal integrity. Community
is the enjoyment of personal and communal integrity.
Forgiveness is acting creatively with integrity to take
steps which move people towards community, even when they
lack community.
Education is the sharing of creative role models
which promote personal and communal integrity---and
so educes the creative potential of people, individually
and communally. Creative role models challenge
alienative traditions and taboos in ways which offer
attractive alternatives to old ways which lack integrity.
It is creative, and difficult, to act with integrity
in doing what one has never seen another person do with
integrity within a supportive community. Copying another
person's group-affirmed example is easy, if the person and
group did what you seek to do with both personal and
communal integrity. It is far more difficult and
dangerous to envision and realize new and more creative
behavior, especially if the new behavior involves the
transcendence of traditional taboos and/or collusions. It
has not been easy for the leaders who have lead us out of
the behavior patterns which have been characteristic of
kings and queens with unquestioned absolute power,
slavery, demonology, racial prejudice, hell-fire &
damnation religion, sexual discrimination, superstitions,
rampant nationalism, blind militarism, etc.
For a viable world community to survive it will be
necessary to be supportive of people who can show
leadership in demonstrating more integrative patterns of
behavior---which transcend our old taboos and
collusions that are the roots of our alienations and
frustrations.
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