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    %TRULY SPIRITUAL PERSON ACKNOWLEDGE LIMIT POWER+921213
     %NEED AVOID LACK HEALTHY REFLEXIVE ROLE MODELS+921213
 %LOVE VICTIM CONFLICT OBJECTIVE ADDICT IDEAL VALUE 921213

     A  major human dilemma pertains to how we respond  to
human:  suffering,  misery, mourning,  pain,  afflictions,
diseases,  evils,  anxiety, despair, despondency,  errors,
mistakes, failures, imperfections, sins, wars, terrorists,
criminals, militarists, fanatics, tragedies, etc.

     How we explain,  conceptualize,  understand, context,
perceive, think, act, feel,  and respond to such as these,
does  much  to  make  us and our  communities  healthy  or
diseased.

     In   attempts   to  protect  ourselves   we  may  be:
indifferent, insensitive, calloused,  distant,  objective,
selfish, blind, egotistical, etc.

     In  efforts to avoid the latter kinds of responses we
may  be:   intrusive,   officious,  meddlesome,  attached,
compulsive,  hyper-sensitive,  hyper-active,  codependent,
intense, do-gooders, martyrs, self-sacrificing, victims of
addicts, etc.

     In  any  case,  how we respond plays a key  role   in
making us and  our  communities  to become integrative  or
disintegrative in fundamental ways.

     We  need to respond in ways which help us to discover
each other in integrative ways;  rather than in ways which
lead   us   to  become  alienated  from  each   other   in
disintegrative ways.

     See the next essay.

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