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  %DESIRE VITALITY HEALTH SCI TECH CREATIVE REFLECT 921008

     We  desire vitality,  health,   energy,   creativity,
completeness; and often are unhappy because we do not have
all that we desire.

     Our ideals and values often make us unhappy with  our
status quo,  and  we rarely know how to  creatively modify
our  ideals  and values so that they  will  lead  us  into
living balanced lives full of vitality,  healthy,  energy,
creativity and completeness.

     We need ideals and  values which  will lead  to their
own  evolution in  balanced  and integrative ways---rather
than    to    debilitative  dissatisfaction,    criticism,
judgmentalism,  rejection,  alienation, estrangement,  and
disintegration.

     When   our  ideals  and  values  lead   us   to   the
petrifaction  of  our  ideals  and  values,  we  are  in a
petrified prison without integrative  ideals and values to
illuminate the way out of our prison.

     If  our  ideals  and values lead us to some  form  of
dissatisfaction without at the same time leading us to  an
appropriate  form  of  hope;  our ideals  and  values  are
misleading  for  us and we need to changed  them---but  in
keeping with what new ideals and values?

     We  need integrative transcendent ideals  and  values
which are not petrified and which lead us to deal  openly,
honestly,  and in  balanced  ways  with  the new contexts,
situations,  challenges and opportunities as they come our
way.  The articulation of such reflexive ideals and values
is something which our traditional scholars and scientists
have  not been prepared to do.  In fact their  traditional
programs  of  preparation  make it difficult for  them  to
conceive  just what  new insights and  attitudes  might be
required in order to be able to articulate such  reflexive
ideals and values.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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