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              %FOUNDATIONS FOR PERSONAL INTEGRATION 860101

     Upon  what foundations can people successfully  build
personal integrity?

     Attempts  have  been  made to do  so  upon  doctrines
regarding  God  about  whom  people  do  not  agree,   and
religious wars and disintegration have ensued.

     Attempts  have  been made to do so  based upon  human
rituals supposed to  have power beyond human understanding
and control, and human mis-understandings have ensued.

     Attempts  have been based upon pure power centralized
in a  few people,  and  the  alienations of injustice have
prevailed.

     Attempts have been based upon the undisciplined wills
of  the  masses,  and the  result  has  been  anarchy  and
communal disintegration.

     Attempts have been based upon laws  and prescriptions
of  what  some  have defined to be proper  behavior,   and
people   have  been  alienated  for  failures  to  conform
properly.

     Attempts  have  been  based upon systematic objective
analysis  of elementary realities,  but the  leaders  have
become alienated from the masses.

     Attempts have  been based upon book learning  in vast
intellectual centers, but the leaders have become elitists
alienated from the masses.

     These  attempts have often lead to the separation  of
the leaders  from  the masses and so to the disintegration
of people;  rather than to the integration  of people into
true   communities   with  both  personal   and   communal
integrity.    No  exclusive basis is the  sole  basis  for
wisdom.  No one exclusive basis is the key to personal and
communal integrity.

     Those  who  would  enjoy the fruits of  personal  and
communal  integrity  must  seek to balance both  kinds  of
integrity with all their hearts, minds and souls.  We need
to work for an integrative communal venture  in  which all
participate  for the good  of  all.   Ways can be found to
integrate  what each unique individual can  contribute  to
the  whole  with integrity;  with  due  respect,  but  not
exclusive   respect.     All   may   with   intentionality
participate  in the integration because they want to,  not
because they must.
                                                                                                                               
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