This is http://www.essayz.com/a9010231.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.} ========================================================== %KNOW OWN EMOTIONS FEEL ADDICT CODEPEND HONEST 901023 People who are trapped in prisons of exclusive objectivity are not free to know and discriminate between their own varied emotions. They are not free to know in detail how they feel, for such knowledge would expose the lack of honesty in their way of approaching people and things. Collusive people are not free to really know themselves an be true to themselves or others. They are all wrapped up in playing dishonest games of mutual self deception, including dishonest games about how they feel, what they need, what they want and desire, what they fear, what they dislike and disdain. Any process of meditation, reflection, prayer or other for of self-clarification is essentially reflexive and so is taboo to compulsively objective participants in exclusive research. By the rules of their game they must not know themselves or be concerned with reflexive truth. They cannot know themselves or be true to themselves or others. People who do not honestly know themselves, their personal needs, their desires and emotions, are people who cannot take care of themselves in a healthy way. Because they cannot take healthy care of themselves they are not responsible or trustworthy; for they cannot respond openly and honestly about themselves. Thus people who are compulsively objective pay a heavy price for their compulsive objectivity; and so also does their community. Compulsive objectivity does not merit community support. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================