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   %ESSENCE OF PERSONAL PERFECTION INTEGRITY HEALTH 890724

     The   essence   of  personal  perfection   is   found
in being authentically your true self with integrity.

     Personal   perfection   has  no  room  for   personal
dishonesty;   and so no room for pretense to be other than
you really are.  You cannot be true to your authentic self
while pretending to be other than who you really are, even
if other persons are trying to get you to behave as if you
are other than who you really are.

     The   essence   of  personal  perfection   is   found
in  being  authentically your true self  with  your  whole
being.

     You  cannot be an evil person with your whole  being;
for  the  essence of being evil is  being  fragmented  and
leading  others to fragment,  disintegrate.  You cannot do
evil with personal integrity. So,  to avoid being a person
who  behaves in evil ways,  seek to be authentically  your
true self with your whole being.

     The  essence  of personal perfection is being  honest
with yourself and others about your experiences, feelings,
fears, opinions, desires, goals, etc. One cannot always BE
honest  with  integrity and respect for the  integrity  of
others;   for honesty can be used in very  misleading  and
disintegrative  ways.  One can always SEEK TO WORK FOR  an
integrative   balance   between  personal   and   communal
integrity,    with  honesty  about  the  consequences   of
compromises, decisions and actions.

     One cannot be perfect while trying to conform to some
definition  of  perfection  which  is  external  to   your
authentic self.  Such efforts are riddled with canyons  of
dishonesty which separate people from each other, and from
the fragmented parts of their authentic self. A  conformal
conception  of perfection is essentially disintegrative in
its nature, and is not worthy of respect.

     The essence of personal perfection entails creatively
contributing to the integrity of your community.  This may
entail  conflict between you and others in the  community.
Perfection  does not entail the pretense of the absence of
conflict;   or  the absence of conflict.  The  essence  of
personal perfection entails contributing creatively to the
resolution  of  such  conflicts as do  persist;   be  they
personal, inter-personal, or communal in character.

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