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   %TRUE PLEASURE SECURITY LET GO DEFENSE FAIL SAFE+930219
   %COERCION VIOLENCE PRESENCE ACCEPT REJECT SECURE 930219

     We enjoy true peace,  tranquility and serenity to the
extent that we enjoy the absence of coercion, violence and
threats to our personal and communal integrity;   and also
the  evident presence of true  personal acceptance of  our
personal and communal integrity.

     So long as we feel threatened by coercion,  violence,
or threats to our personal and communal integrity; or feel
insecure because of there is no evident presence  of  true
personal   acceptance   of  our  personal   and   communal
integrity---so long we are likely to be defensive,  and so
be a threat to those about us.

     When  we and others are misled by values  and  ideals
which  cause us to be preoccupied with:  conformity,   the
fulfillment   of  expectations,   discipline,   obedience,
orders,  rules,  regulations,  injunctions,  prohibitions,
taboos,    laws,   legislation,   litigation,   judgments,
rejections, excommunications, disfellowshipping,  and ways
to  fix our imperfections---then we are in the presence of
coercions,   violence,   and threats to our  personal  and
communal integrity. In such situations there is no evident
presence of true personal  acceptance  of our personal and
communal  integrity.  We cannot therein enjoy true  peace,
tranquility  or  serenity.   We seek to  defend  ourselves
through the use of coercion,   violence and threats to the
personal  and communal integrity of those whom we perceive
to be our enemies  and/or  the agents of evil powers which
threaten us. We thereby feed the viscous cycle.

     We enjoy true peace,  tranquility and serenity to the
extent that we enjoy the absence of coercion, violence and
threats to our personal and communal integrity;   and also
enjoy the evident presence of true  personal acceptance of
our personal and communal integrity.

     To enjoy true peace, tranquility and serenity we need
to  cooperate and work together to break the viscous cycle
through  which  the presence of  coercion,   violence  and
threats  to  our  personal  and communal  integrity  grows
exponentially   in  proportion  to  itself---through   the
elicitation   of  defensive  maneuvers  and  technologies.
Whatever  elicits  defensive  maneuvers  and  technologies
tends  to  undermine security,   peace,   tranquility  and
serenity.

     We  can work to promote true peace,  tranquility  and
serenity by focusing our attention upon integrative ideals
and  values which do not lead  us to be preoccupied  with:
conformity,  the  fulfillment of expectations, discipline,
obedience,  orders,   rules,   regulations,   injunctions,
prohibitions,  taboos,   laws,   legislation,  litigation,
judgments,          rejections,          excommunications,
disfellowshipping,  and ways to fix our imperfections. The
roots  to  many  of our dilemmas are to be  found  in  our
ideals and values; not in our technologies and weaknesses.

     Integrative  ideals  and values do not cause us to be
preoccupied  with  the apparently threatening  differences
between  us and those whom we are prone to perceive as our
enemies,   and/or  as agents of evil powers.   Integrative
ideals and values  lead  us  and motivate us to focus  our
attention   upon   the  similarities   and   complimentary
differences between us and those people whom we are  prone
to  perceive  as  our  enemies and/or as  agents  of  evil
powers.   Integrative ideals and values lead us to seek to
be together in dialogue, conversations, and listening with
those  whom  we  perceive  to  be  different  from  us  in
interesting ways. Therein we find joyful ways to cooperate
in  resolving  the conflicts which tend to divide  us  and
make us feel insecure.

     We cannot enjoy true peace,  tranquility and serenity
so long as we respect,  honor,  elect and tolerate leaders
who  are focused upon values and ideals which cause us  to
be  preoccupied  with:  conformity,   the  fulfillment  of
expectations,   discipline,   obedience,  orders,   rules,
regulations,  injunctions,  prohibitions,  taboos,   laws,
legislation,     litigation,     judgments,    rejections,
excommunications,  disfellowshipping,  and ways to fix our
imperfections. Such people lead us into coercion, violence
and threats to  our  personal  and communal integrity.  We
need  to transcend their foci  and  the technologies  into
which their foci lead us.

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