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               %AFFIRMATION OF INTEGRITY IMPORTANCE 870916

     We can affirm the importance of integrity only to the
extent that we enjoy both personal and communal integrity:
both  personal  and  communal integrity grow only  to  the
extent to which we participate in and enjoy them  in  open
and public ways.   Each kind of integrity is essential  to
other kinds of integrity.

     When  we  seek integrity  with our whole  being,   it
grows exponentially, because  our existence with integrity
is  the basis of its growth.   When we seek isolated goals
with  our  whole  being,  we  disintegrate  exponentially,
because  decay  is  proportional  to  the   disintegrative
isolation  in  which we live.

     Excommunication   is   disintegration.      Communion
and dialogue are integration.    Excommunication can   not
be a  means  to integrity with integrity.  Open and honest
communion    and   dialogue   are   not   steps    towards
disintegration,   and  can  not be regarded as  evil  with
integrity.

     We cannot  participate in excommunication, communion,
dialogue;  i.e.,  disintegration/integration in  objective
ways.   To demonstrate such realities we must  participate
in them.  We cannot  demonstrate them convincingly without
participating  in   them.   A   compulsive  dedication  to
objectivity  inhibits participation with our whole  being,
and so inhibits integration and integrity.

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