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       %SELF ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA PERSONAL INTEGRITY 890603

     Communal   integrity  and  personal   integrity   are
interdependent; neither can survive without the other.

     Personal  integrity is not possible in the absence of
self acceptance.  If Jack cannot accept himself because of
what  he is and so rejects himself because of what he  is;
then Jack is split and lacks personal integrity.

     To   enjoy   personal   integrity  Jack   must   have
integrative  criteria  in  terms  of  which  he  can  with
integrity  accept himself as the imperfect creature he  is
with   his  own  particular  limitations  and  history  of
mistakes made and denied.

     If  a  community teaches its  members  that  personal
acceptance is a conditional behavior used as a tool to try
to  get people to conform to proper patterns of  behavior,
then  inevitable failures lead to personal rejections  and
by  natural consequences then to more mistakes,  failures,
rejections, alienative consequences, etc.

     Personal acceptance does not have to do with approval
or  disapproval  of  past behavior;  it  has  to  do  with
continuity   of  open  and  honest  dialogue.     Personal
acceptance is a guarantee of the possibility of continuity
of  open and honest dialogue about all matters of personal
concern; including how to learn from past mistakes.

     Personal  acceptance is acceptance into an  inclusive
community   of   open  and  honest  dialogue.     Personal
acceptance  does  not  have to do  with  inclusion  in  an
exclusive  select  group  of people which  is  engaged  in
pretentious behavior.

     Personal acceptance has to do with the maintenance of
communal  integrity  through the maintenance of  open  and
honest  channels  of communication among  members  of  the
community.  Every time a member of a community is excluded
from   open   and  honest  communication   the   exclusion
undermines both personal and communal integrity.

     Communal   integrity   and  personal  integrity   are
interdependent; neither can survive without the other.

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