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%REQUIRE CREATIVE DISHONEST PRETENSE INTEGRITY TRUE+921028
    %CREATE BLOCK FOUNDATION WISE REFLECT SALVATION 921028

     We  can  help  to  create  the  foundations  for wise
reflection, creativity, integrity, fulfillment, redemption
and salvation by clarifying what is essential to each; and
what may block each. Often our misleading ideals,  values,
goals,  attitudes,  habits,  perceptions,  languages,  and
other considerations block the building of the foundations
for wise reflection,  creativity, integrity,  fulfillment,
redemption and salvation.

     People   who   are   preoccupied   with   perfection,
appearances,  control,  discipline,  regulations,   rules,
laws, codes, prohibitions, requirements, and taboos behave
with  the "best of intentions"  in ways which lead to  the
opposite of what they intend.  They do not understand  the
nature of the foundations for wise reflection, creativity,
integrity, fulfillment, redemption and salvation. They are
not  clear in their own minds or in their articulations as
to  what  foundations are essential.  They are mislead  by
their preoccupations.

     We  need  to understand how we may be mislead by  our
pre-occupations; else we may with the "best of intentions"
behave  in  ways  which lead to the opposite  of  what  we
intend.

     We need to clarify the nature of:

     WISE  REFLECTION which is reflexive;  not  objective,
scientific, or technocratic.

     CREATIVITY   which   generates  what  is  new;    not
conformity to what is old, anticipated and/or expected.

     INTEGRITY  which  has to do with honest personal  and
communal dialogue; not with the perfection of appearances.

     FULFILLMENT  which  has  to do with  being  our  true
selves  honestly with each other;  now with  acquisitions,
achievements, and ownership.

     REDEMPTION  which  has  to do with freely giving  and
freely  accepting gifts of security;  not with paying some
required  price to acquire something which is desired  and
which we may try to own and control.

     SALVATION  which   has   to   do   with our willingly
participating in a revolutionary  paradigm  shift  in  our
desires,   preoccupations,   attitudes,   perceptions  and
relationships;   not  with  any  successful  technological
advances  and uses,  or with resource consumption designed
to reach predetermined goals.

     Once  we  are  clear about the natures of  the  above
aspects of being truly human---we can better deal with our
misleading behaviors which we engage in with the "best  of
intentions"; but are behaviors which are not well informed
about  the  natures  of  the above aspects of being  truly
human  with personal and communal integrity.  In fact,  in
collusive  ways our "best intentions"  often  obscure  the
natures of the above aspects of being truly human. Thus we
need  to  clarify the natures of and the dynamics  of  our
most respected collusions.  This will be very difficult to
imagine and do!
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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