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 %ESSENTIAL BALANCE INTIMATE SEX RELATE AMBIVALENCE+930506
     %TIME PRIORITY BUDGET AFFIRM VALUE IDEAL FOCUS 930506

     We declare our values,  ideals and priorities by  how
we  spend  our time.  How we spend our time  declares  our
values, ideals and priorities. We cannot spend our time in
a value-neutral  way.  Scientists who strive  to be value-
neutral  declare their values,  ideals and  priorities  by
spending  their  time doing research,  writing papers  and
attending  research conferences---at the expense of  other
possibilities.

     When  our  lives are not satisfying,  meaningful  and
joyful we will do well to consider how we spend our  time;
with  what  foci  of  attention,    passions,    emotions,
conversation,  thinking, work, relationships,  writing and
reading.  If our lives are not satisfying,  meaningful and
joyful  we will do well to consider giving up some of  the
ways  we spend our time in order to give time to new ways.
We  are not likely to do this unless we passionately  come
to  feel  that the status quo is unacceptable  and  it  is
worth  making significant sacrifices to change our  status
quo. We will not act to change our behavior as regards how
we spend our time unless we deeply feel that the fruits of
our behavior patterns are unacceptable,  and  we recognize
what is unacceptable as being in fact the fruit of our own
behavior patterns.

     Often  our lives are not satisfying,  meaningful  and
joyful  because  they  are focused exclusively  upon  non-
existential   ideals,    values,   abstractions,    rules,
regulations,  prohibitions, injunctions, and taboos.  When
we  become  split  from our experiences we  cannot  relate
meaningfully and in satisfying ways to each other. Hearing
someone in person openly and honestly  tell of their first
person  experiences  is often more beneficial to  us  than
hearing  a  scientifically reliable  objective  report  of
research  regarding  many people having such  experiences;
and  will  more likely lead to a prudent change in how  we
spend  our  time  than  will  the  scientifically reliable
objective report.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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