This is http://www.essayz.com/a9105082.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.} ========================================================== %FEAR DISCOVERY IMPOSTOR DISHONESTY ILLEGAL LOVE 910508 Love is undermined by fear when lives are dominated by fear of being discovered as being engaged in illegal, immoral or unethical activity; being dishonest, deceptive, misleading; or being an impostor. Each fear is at root a fear of being discovered as lacking the real integrity which one yearns for, but does not enjoy. Each fear is at root a fear of being discovered for being what one really is; yet what one most yearns for is to be fully oneself and be fully accepted when one is fully discovered as what one really is. Fear of being discovered is disintegrative. What we fear is that we will be discovered as lacking integrity. The fear of being discovered as lacking integrity leads to further disintegration. It is a strange and tragic loop of disintegrative processes; which cannot be broken by means of technical problem solving procedures. Emotions such as fear are not technical problems. We cannot solve fear or anxiety, as we can solve a problem. We are dishonest when we try to treat emotions as technical problems. Technocrats fear being discovered as unable to solve emotions, because at heart technocrats know that they are not being honest about emotions, and fear to have their dishonesty discovered. We need to learn to distinguish between dilemmas which confront us, with the associated issues of how to respond personally to them with integrity; and problems which confront us, with the associated issues of how to manipulate things effectively to achieve some technical goal. If we confuse the two different kinds of situations with each other, we are bound to lack integrity in our responses to them. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================