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  %INNER OUTER CRITERIA SELF ESTEEM JUDGE INTEGRITY 910506

     Our integrity depends upon our maintaining a coherent
way  of viewing our inner and outer signals, regarding how
to maintain our personal and communal integrity.

     To maintain  our integrity we must resolve  conflicts
between inner and outer signals, regarding how to maintain
our personal and communal integrity.

     If we attend exclusively to outer signals and  ignore
inner  signals,   we  lose touch with  all  that  is  most
uniquely our own;  we become dishonest with ourselves, and
so we lose our personal integrity.

     If we attend exclusively to inner signals and  ignore
outer  signals,   we lose touch with the  community  which
conceives us;  we become dishonest with others,  and so we
lose our communal integrity.

     It does  us and others no good to do violence to  our
inner or outer signals.    We must honestly deal with both
inner and outer  signals,    and find ways to resolve  the
conflicts  which  exist between what they call upon us  to
do.  It does us  and others no good to attend primarily to
the  violence which one set of signals would inflict  upon
the  other  set of  signals.    Making one set of  signals
supreme will  not resolve  the conflict between  disparate
signals;    it  will only hide the conflict,  and make  it
more  difficult to deal with the dis-eases which they will
continue to generate.

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