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                      %I-THOU WHOLE BEING INTEGRITY 860624

     When a person acts with the whole being as a coherent
being  --- a person acts  with  integrity,     and thereby
promotes  both  personal and  communal  integrity.    Such
action is  not disintegrative --- because  it  is   itself
integrative.     Such  a person  who   acts   with   their
whole being does  so  with confidences,    for  there  are
no    internal    conflicts  undermining  the  confidence.
The  person  regards self with esteem,    has  self-esteem
which  is coherent,  whole,   not in doubt.     The person
deals   with   external conflict   with integrity  on  the
basis of internal integrity; and thereby promotes external
integrity.

     Relating to other persons with integrity leads people
into  I-Thou  relationships which are free  of  deception,
misleading, secrecy, violence, coercion, and other aspects
which are characteristic of disintegrative  relationships.
In  I-Thou relationships people meet each other fully  and
wholly,    not   in   fragmentary   parts.     In   I-Thou
relationships   it   is possible  to Be  Together  without
inhibition  or  repression,   and  so it  is  possible  to
cooperate creatively and become a new being in  communion,
thereby  creating a new  community characterized by  unity
and integrity at both the  personal and corporate level.

     To  be  whole with integrity in I-Thou  relationships
one  must  find  ways  to  escape  from  collusions  which
undermine  truth and integrity;  transcending the  taboos,
punishments,  excommunications,  etc.  which  characterize
conformal  behavior  patterns and societies which are  not
genuine communities.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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