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 %LEADING PATTERNS OF THOUGHT FEELING ATTITUDES JOY 881122

     Each  community  is  characterized  by  the   leading
patterns  of thought,  feelings,  attitudes and joys which
are  available  to  its  members  as  they  encounter  the
challenges of life.

     The  wider  and richer are such patterns,   the  more
tools  the  members  of the community have with  which  to
approach their challenges.  The richness of community life
depends  upon  the richness of the tools available to  it,
and upon the wisdom of the members in selecting tools with
which to approach their challenges. Patterns are tools.

     Some of the patterns have to do with the very process
of selecting tools of thought, feeling, attitudes and joys
which  are  available while coping with the challenges  of
life.    Wisdom has to do with the patterns of choice  and
the  range  of  choices  which  are  recognized  as  being
available.    Poor  people have few choices recognized  as
being  available,   and  few  patterns  for making choices
wisely.   Rich people have many such choices and  patterns
to lead them.

     The    two  cultures split between the poor  and  the
rich people and  nations pertains   not so  much  to  what
they  posers   and   control,    as  to   their    leading
patterns  of thought,  feeling,  attitudes and joys.   The
poor  are  often  poor because they seek to  possess   and
control  rather than seek  to  share  their  patterns   of
thought,     feeling, attitudes and joys.    Their efforts
to possess and control undermine  their  possibilities  of
enriching   each  other through sharing.   They  are  poor
because of their addictive patterns  of thought, feelings,
attitudes  and  desperation.   They  may  become  rich  by
choosing to focus their attentions upon different patterns
which  will lead them  into sharing what  they have;    in
open  and  honest dialogue  about their  experiences   and
what  they  have learned  from   their   own  experiences.
They    may then be willing to own their own  experiences,
and to learn from them.

     Learning   from   personal  experiences  can  be   an
enriching experience.  Such learning and enrichment is not
possible  without  openness  and  honesty  about  personal
experiences  and what they mean and signify.   Efforts  to
own and control things and people often get in the way  of
learning  through sharing openly and honestly the personal
experiences of daily life.   In the absence of the sharing
of  helpful patterns of thought,  feelings,  attitudes and
joys;   the members of a community learn little and forget
much.

     That which is associated with pain is often forgotten
in  self defense.   If the patterns of thought,  feelings,
attitudes  and  desperations of a community  lead  to  the
members having much pain in their experiences; the members
are  likely to forget much about their experiences and  to
learn  little  from them.   It is dangerous to  focus  our
lives patterns  that lead to forgetting much in pain.   It
is  wise to focus our lives patterns that lead to learning
much in joyful dialogue.

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