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%ACCEPTANCE ALL ELEMENTS BEING WHOLE SELF INTEGRITY 881106

     To be one's self with integrity  one must accept with
integrity all elements of one's self.   This is difficult,
if not impossible, if others do not accept
 with integrity all elements of one's self.

     In the absence of acceptance of all aspects of  one's
self  with integrity one yearns for that which is lacking,
and  reaches  out  for  what seems to  be  that  which  is
lacking, even though it may not be authentic.   One can be
very  vulnerable  to  seduction when one is  not  properly
accepted   by  important  others.    In  the  absence   of
integrative acceptance disintegration is probable.

     The  essence of God's Love is the acceptance  of  all
aspects  of each self with integrity.   God's  Love  frees
people to be whole, acting as themselves.

     Conformal  communities  do not accept all aspects  of
their member's,  and so lead to their members'  and  their
own disintegration.

     The  essence  of  personal  acceptance is  to  be  in
dialogue  with  that which is accepted.   The  essence  of
acceptance is not approval or rejection.  There is no need
to  either  approve  or reject each aspect  of  a  person.
There is an ultimate need to be in dialogue.

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