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               %SALVATION IS RELATIONAL NOT SELFISH 861230

     Salvation  is  enjoyed through  integrative  personal
relationships, not by means of personal accomplishments of
any kind.   Individuals can not save themselves  according
to   any   program   of   salvation---whether   religious,
scientific, meditative,   aesthetic,   etc.    The essence
of  salvation involves   humane  relationships  which  are
balanced, mutual,   open,  honest,  just,   complementary,
growing,   personal  and communal.    Salvation is not  an
achievement, it  is  a gift enjoyed by people immersed  in
integrative efforts which are not self centered.

     Salvation   is   not  a  property  of  or  owned   by
individuals    by   virtue   of   their   attributes    or
accomplishments.  Salvation is not a characteristic of any
elements  of  a  whole,  but is enjoyed by people within a
whole  and  healthy  community.    The  full  meaning   of
salvation can not be known by disintegrating people within
disintegrating  communities;  although people in  distress
can  seek to be integrative and have integrity,    and  in
such a way in part come to enjoy salvation from distress.

     Salvation  which exists only in some future  time  is
not real salvation.   Salvation exists in the eternal  now
of people  who   are  present  to  each  other  in  I-Thou
relationships---which  transcend  the   enumerations   and
measurements of past and future.

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