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             %SEEK BALANCED INTEGRITY ETERNALLY NOW 861124

     Seek  balanced  integrity  by  seeking  to  recognize
imbalance and seeking to be in dialogue with other persons
who complement your kinds of specialization.

     Balance  your  concern  for  personal  integrity with
familiarity  through   dialogue  with   people   who   are
especially  concerned  with promoting  communal integrity.
Balance  your   concern  for   communal   integrity   with
familiarity   through   dialogue   with  people   who  are
especially concerned with  promoting  personal  integrity.
Both kinds of integrity are essential.   A  lack of either
leads to both disintegrating.

     No kind of specialization is the essential  means  to
ultimate success.   If you focus upon some particular kind
of specialization  as  the  essential  means  to  ultimate
success,   you will  not seek  balanced  integrity  in the
eternal now;  for your specialty will appear to you to  be
more  important  then balanced integrity,  and you will be
eternally hungry, yet never satisfied.

     Seek to  balance your concern with means  to  achieve
your chosen goals, with people who have chosen other goals
complementary  to  your  chosen goals.   Goals  which  are
worthy of ultimate concern are not mutually exclusive. Any
goal  which  leads  people to be exclusive is a  goal  not
worthy  of ultimate concern and dedication:  it  leads  to
imbalance and so to disintegration.

     Salvation   is   not   achieved   through  unbalanced
achievements which  involve  exclusivity  that  undermines
either personal or communal integrity.   Specialization by
experts in essential skills is necessary,  but not the key
to  salvation;   to regard it as such it is to  block  the
integrative   leadership   of  those  who  seek   balanced
integrity  through dialogue in I-Thou relationships in the
eternal now of heaven.

     To each truth,  skill,  insight, perspective,  value,
ideal,   goal,  relationship etc.  there are complementary
others  which  are  essential  to  balanced  personal  and
communal  integrity.   It is therefore foolish to seek the
truth,  skill,  insight, perspective, value, ideal,  goal,
relationship  or other which is in any exclusive  way  the
key  to  salvation.   Exclusivity undermines  balance  and
integrity.

     Eternally  now,  seek balanced integrity.   All other
worthy enjoyments will be the fruits of your search.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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