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%INHIBIT FEAR REPRESS OPEN HONEST INTIMATE DIALOGUE+930307
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     It  is dangerous to repress,  hide,  conceal  and  be
silent about conflicts which have been internalized within
ourselves and within our communities.  The real threats to
our  integrity  are not outside of us;  they  are  in  the
conflicts which have  been  internalized  within ourselves
and within  our  communities---and which we repress, hide,
conceal and are silent about.

     None  of  our  human ideals and values are so  great,
important,  powerful,  holy or of divine origin that it is
impossible  for them to be in disintegrative conflict with
other  ideals and values which we regard as  of  secondary
importance.  Where we see a conflict between the devil and
God,  there may God be at work seeking to lead us to  some
higher level of personal  and  communal  integrity through
true conflict resolution.

     No  conflict  is  resolved  by  repression,   hiding,
concealing and being silent about it.

     No   conflict   is   resolved  through  the  use   of
manipulative: techniques, technologies, weapons, coercion,
force, legal tools,  moral injunctions,  preaching threats
or violence.

     We  need to listen when our hearts,   minds,   souls,
bodies  and/or  spirits point to the presence of  conflict
within  our  selves and/or within  our  communities.    To
ignore  such promptings is to ignore danger signals  which
call   for  diligent  attention,    reflection,    prayer,
conversation,  listening, dialogue, openness, and honesty.
Blaming  somebody  else  for  such  signals  resolves   no
conflict.  Blaming our selves for such signals resolves no
conflict.

     Dichotomous     thinking,     feeling,     preaching,
intellectualizing and being will not resolve conflicts.

     Any  effort  to  draw  clear   distinctions   between
ourselves and our own as being either superior or inferior
to others will not resolve any of our conflicts.

     Blessed are the children who have not been encouraged
to eat of  the fruit of  the  tree of the knowledge of who
are the good people and who are the evil people.  They are
spared   much   internalized  conflict   which   engenders
dichotomous    analysis,    judgements,     condemnations,
rejections,   talk,  excommunications,   alienation,   and
disintegration.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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