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 %MOTIVATION SPECIALIZED ARROGANCE BALANCE COMPLETE 891228

     In  a healthy community there are many  fundamentally
different kinds of people who perform many different kinds
of  essential service to the community.  If all members of
the community were plumbers and refused to do anything but
plumbing,   there would be a real problem.  Likewise there
would  be  a real problem if all members  of  a  community
regarded plumbing as beneath them.

     For  a  community to have integrity it  must  have  a
variety  of different kinds of wise people in it,  and the
many  different  kinds of people must  respect  what  each
other contributes to the integrity of the whole community.

     What  is true of a community and its members is  also
true  within a person,  and the large number of  different
complementary  aspects  of  a person of integrity.   If  a
person  is compulsively logical at every moment  of  their
life  and  utterly  disdainful towards the  emotional  and
affective aspects of life, the person lacks integrity;  is
not  healthy  and is not whole---because the person  lacks
essential aspects of being a whole person.

     To have integrity a person must respect all essential
aspects of being a whole person,  and of being be a member
of  a  community  which likewise  respects  all  essential
aspects of being a whole person.

     Insecure  people  often seek to achieve  security  by
trying   to  achieve  perfection  with  regard   to   some
specialized  aspect  of being a whole  person;   regarding
other  aspects as of little importance and as inferior  to
the  aspect  that  they seek to perfect.   They  adopt  an
exclusive  attitude  towards  what  merits  respect  in  a
person,   and they regard themselves as better than  other
people  because they have specialized in the best possible
character  of being a whole person.  In their  exclusivity
they  exclude from their lives aspects which are essential
to personal integrity---as they specialize in attempts  to
achieve  some  narrow  type  of  perfection,   to  justify
themselves  and to compensate for their lack of  affective
acceptance, and lack of healthy self esteem.

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