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 %GOD REWARDS PEOPLE PRAY PREOCCUPIED OWN ADVANTAGE 901117

God rewards those people who enjoy life because:

1.  They   are  not preoccupied  with  computing  personal
advantages as distinct from communal advantages.

2.  They do not particularly care to whose advantage  some
cooperative effort will accrue.

3.  Their  considerations are not exclusive in  character,
but rather are inclusive in character.

4.  They are not desiring, seeking, computing, and working
for  their  own exclusive advantages;  or for those of  an
exclusive group of which they count themselves as members.

5.  Their   computations  do  not  focus  upon  to   whose
advantage various actual and possible efforts may accrue.

6.  They  enjoy  seeing others enjoy advantages  to  which
they themselves have selflessly contributed.

7.  They   seek to integrate others into their lives  with
understanding and communal integrity.

8.  They  do  not  seek to  promote  their  own   personal
advantage   in  the  absence  of  advantages  to   others'
integrity  and/or in  the absence of advantages to Earth's
living community as an integrated whole.

9.  They take little thought about distinguishing  between
desiring,  seeking,  computing,  and working for their own
exclusive  advantage,  versus for the integrative communal
advantage.

10.  They   let  go  of seeking  for  their  own  personal
advantage,   while yet seeking in healthy ways  their  own
personal  integrity  within  the  context  of  a  communal
integrity.

11.  They know that in giving themselves with integrity to
promote  the  communal integrity,  they assure  their  own
continued personal integrity and joy.

12.  They   know   that  bringing  people  together   with
integrity;   brings  more  joy  than  desiring,   seeking,
computing and working for their own advantage.

13.  They live lives of prayer in which they seek   global
integrative advantages,  rather than dichotomous  personal
advantages.

14.  They   find  their  freedoms within  the  context  of
communal integrity and communal advantages.

15.  Their visions and dreams are not exclusive.

16.  Their attitudes, perceptions,  desires,  expectations
and   works  are  not  personally  manipulative  in   ways
considered to be to their own advantage.

17.  They   relax and are creative in the  knowledge  that
their joy will  come  within the context of the advantages
of communal integrity and cooperation,  rather than in the
context   of   individualistic  winning   in   competitive
conflicts and their associated manipulative battles.

18.  They are not anxious within the context of   tensions
between their own personal advantages,  and the advantages
of others and/or the community as an integrated whole.

19.  Their serenity and peace come from the security  they
accept as gifts from others within the context of intimate
relationships,  where all participants are equally free to
be vulnerable and secure at the same time.

20.  Their concepts,   language,  attitudes,  perceptions,
desires, communications, dreams, visions,  and efforts are
free  of preoccupations with differences between their own
advantage and others' advantages.

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