This is http://www.essayz.com/a9010221.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ENJOY GUILTLESS SHAMELESS HEALTHY PLEASURE REASON 901022 There are various reasons that stand in the way of people enjoying guiltless, shameless, healthy pleasures. People may believe that they must earn the right to enjoy guiltless, shameless, healthy pleasures, and also believe that the way to earn that right involves a life-long struggle which is without pleasure, but with much guilt and shame. Thus such pleasures are never enjoyed. People may believe that it is improper for them to enjoy guiltless, shameless, healthy pleasures until after all others have done so; that others must be first, and that they themselves must yield to the pleasures of others before they may themselves have the right of such enjoyment. Thus such pleasures are never enjoyed. People may believe that to enjoy guiltless, shameless, healthy pleasure would involve violating professional taboos against the suspension of the objectivity which they worship as an idol. Thus such pleasures are never enjoyed. People may believe that to enjoy guiltless, shameless, healthy pleasure one must have earned, purchased, received, learned how to use and in other ways know how to take advantage of certain essential means, techniques and technologies. Thus such pleasures are never enjoyed. People may believe that because of the imperfections, guilt, shame and weaknesses which they have, they cannot enjoy guiltless, shameless, healthy pleasures. They seek to be perfect, guiltless, shameless and infinitely strong before they allow themselves to anticipate or hope for such pleasures. Thus such pleasures are never enjoyed. People are often trapped in prisons of dishonest and tragic beliefs/convictions about: guilt, shame, pleasures, enjoyment, taboos, objectivity, perfection, imperfection, weakness, enjoyment and much more; and not be free to enjoy Life with Love. In such prisons they are doomed to lives of hopelessness, despair, anger, depression, pain, dis-ease, illness, and disintegration---unless they seek earnestly to detach from their dishonest and tragic beliefs; along with the associated dishonest attitudes, habits of thought and habitual emotions. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================