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  %COMMUNAL CONTEXT PERSONAL ACCEPTANCE AFFIRMATION 890424

     The  integrative  community  provides its  members  a
communal  context  in which the affirmations  of  personal
acceptance  offer real meaning and can be relied upon.  In
the absence of such a communal context personal acceptance
offers  little  integrative  power and little  promise  of
meaningful  relationships.   In  the  absence  of  such  a
communal context the power of personal acceptance is spent
upon  dealing with the absence of the integrative communal
context,    rather   than   in  more   positive   creative
relationships.

     A communal context for creative relationships is  not
just    a    numerical    accumulation    of    individual
accomplishments  or contributions.  Its essence is not  in
more  of  any thing which can be counted in the  sense  of
numbering or quantitative measurement.  A communal context
for  creative  relationships is defined in  a  qualitative
sense;   it  entails a web of quality relationships  whose
essence  resides  in  the  honesty  and  quality  of   the
languages,  conversations and conversions which  construct
the web which sustains the participants in the web.

     When a need which is entailed in a lack or absence is
met, there is then more than there was in the absence, but
the  essence of the filling of the need is not measured by
any  numerical  process.  If that essence is  regarded  as
numerical,  then when trying to meet the need the  efforts
to meet the need are likely to be misdirected. A community
which  seeks  to create a communal  context  for  creative
relationships  will  fail if it seeks to acquire  more  of
some thing or technology which can be enumerated. It needs
to   develop  a  communal  context  in  which  integrative
intimate personal relationships are affirmed in meaningful
ways  by  the  community as a  whole.   In  such  holistic
behavior  the  community  will  become  integrated  in   a
meaningful way.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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