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 %EXCLUSIVE OBJECTIVITY REFLEXIVITY PARADIGM REDUCE+940612
  %IMPORTANT TIME SELF OTHER GIFT PRESENCE INTIMATE+940612
    %KNOWLEDGE RELATION VULNERABILITY DEFEND TRUTHS 940612

    How we spend our limited time is important;  it is how
we say what is important to us,  and how we lead others to
decide what is important to them.

    How we spend our limited time leads us to exclude some
possibilities  from our lives and from the lives of  those
whom we lead and teach.  What we exclude from our lives is
very important; it is how we say what is most important to
us,   and  how  we  lead others to  decide  what  is  most
important to them.

    If we are exclusively objective in how we approach our
relationships---we  exclude  from our lives and  from  the
lives  of  those  who  learn  from  us  those  integrative
relationships which are reflexive; inter-connecting people
with each other  in  intimate  ways which entail reflexive
honesty, personal integrity and communal integrity.

    Integrative   personal  relationships  are   spiritual
relationships.  Spiritual  relationships   are   reflexive
integrative   relationships.      If we are  reductionists
and believe and act as if everything is dealt with when we
deal   with  objective  relationships---then  we   exclude
reflexive   relationships  which  are  essential  to   our
personal and communal integrity,  and to healthy spiritual
living.

    Reductionists reduce  all realities to those realities
which   they  regard  as  important;   reducing  them   to
combinations  of   those realities  which  they regard  as
important---and  thereby exclude  from their understanding
those  realities  which are complementary  to those  which
they regard as important.   Their vocabulary of words  and
experiences  does  not  span  the  full  range  of   human
experiences  and is inadequate to communicating about  the
full  range  of  human  experiences.     For  them,   some
experiences   remain  for  them  beyond  the   range    of
description  and conscious consideration. Such experiences
cannot be dealt with wisely in any  conscious way which is
open to conscious dialogue.

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