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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8709261.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SECURITY PRUDENT FREEDOM FROM FEAR 870926 The essence of security is the prudent freedom from fear. If we do not fear that which merits concern and prudent action, then we are fools. If we let fear dominate our lives, then we are inherently insecure; for fear without a prudent focus disintegrates our lives and communities. If we live in communities which do not threaten us, and in which we may be prudently free from fear; then we are secure. As we seek to enjoy security we need to seek with an understanding of the essential nature of security. Security cannot be achieved in fearful ways, for fearful ways only heighten the fear of those whom we fear, and in a reciprocal way heighten our fear and undermine our security. If we would enjoy security we need to give it to our enemies, for only then can we become free of the fear of our enemies. We must love our enemies to be secure; because in our love they are secure, and we can be secure in their love. How do we get from the present reality of fear, to the vision of a prudent freedom from fear? It can be done only with sacrifice which entails taking risks, as is the case for any fight for freedom. War does not entail the absence of risk. Arms races do not entail the absence of risk. We cannot with integrity choose not to take risks. We can only choose what kinds of risks to take. If we would enjoy freedom from fear, we must be willing to give the freedom from fear to those who fear us most. That is the way to true security. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================